August 17, 2021
A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
“Wisdom is radiant and unfading,
and she is easily discerned by those who love her,
and is found by those who seek her.
She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her.
One who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty,
for she will be found sitting at the gate.”—Wisdom 6:12-14.
From Daily Something by Joanna Seibert. Read the rest of Joanna’s meditation.
This Week:
- The pillars of wholehearted living
- What attitude should we adopt now?
- During a crisis, slow down
- Dealing with judgmentalism
Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life
“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.” – Parker Palmer in a commencement address at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Found in Daily Good, November 3, 2015
Watch the address or read the transcript.
More about Daily Good.
A Christian Attitude Toward the World
“Where is God now?” has become the cry of many, even faithful Christians. How can God allow the injustice, the suffering, the hatred that has infected our society? But Fr. Ron Rolheiser insists that God still loves the world. Our part is to “comfort it in its pain, affirm its goodness, and help it direct its powerful life forces and energy towards the transcendent, towards God, towards community, towards justice, and towards compassion.”
From Fr. Ron’s blog.
Crisis Contemplation
To slow down and enter a contemplative attitude when the instinct is to run and hide is counterintuitive, says Barbara Holmes in her essay from the Center for Action and Contemplation. Contemplation, says Holmes, helps us to retreat from the frontlines of life.
Read the meditation.
More about the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Removing the Log from our Eye
Are there people who just make you crazy? Do you wish they would go away? Of course there are, and you do. Brother David Vryhof of the Society of St. John the Evangelist has a three-step process to deal with your judgment.
Read the essay.
More about Society of St. John the Evangelist.
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