A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things.
Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal.
Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions.
Be whatever you are right now.
You are worthy, always.
S.C. Lourie@butterfliesandpebbles
From Well for the Journey
Autumn Prayer of Acceptance
Gracious God of every turning season, your earth teaches me by her natural turning from one season to another. As she enters into the dying and rising cycle, she welcomes the changes.
Submitted by a friend and found on the webpage of Hanover Missionary Church.
Loving Things in Themselves
Richard Rohr believes that the only way to know how to love God is to love what God loves; “only then do we love with divine love and allow it to flow through us,” says Rohr.
From the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Summer’s Exodus
This summer, author Melanie Gillgrist learned that if she unclenches her hands, she will see that God has everything under control. Whatever manna God sends will be sufficient.
From Renovare.
God’s Holy Vulnerables
Brother Sean Glenn of the Society of St. John the Evangelist writes about two different kinds of wisdom. The wisdom of the world is born of competition and comparison; it originates in our desire to define good and evil on our own limited terms. But biblical wisdom is born from the generous gift of God’s own experiential self-disclosure in Jesus.
Pilgrims Journeying Within
Sometimes we have to begin again. Something isn’t working, and the best we can do is start over. Do we meet that with joyful expectation, or with dread and distress? This week’s chapter in The Soul of a Pilgrim encourages us to always be beginning again.
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