A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
God is always coming to us. Pay attention to now. God’s presence is always in the present. There will be “thin places” where God breaks through to you, often mysteriously, in the here-and-now. Pay attention to now.
Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE
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Claiming My Now
A Wisdom Years Workshop
for older adults
July 15, 2023, 9 am to 1 pm
Each season of life brings new revelations, new challenges, new blessings. During the “wisdom years” – the last third of life – while the body diminishes, the spiritual longing for a deeper relationship with God increases. Our “Claiming My Now” workshop is an opportunity to consider how we can navigate the joys and the challenges of the later years of life.
How to Make Stress Your Friend
We are all used to being told to reduce the amount of stress in our lives. But health psychologist Kelly McGonigal has discovered that stress can actually be good for us and even make us more social.
Watch the TED talk or read the transcript.
Found in Daily Good.
When Fear is All Around
Like the disciples in the boat when the great storm arose, we are surrounded by fear in these days – if not because of the political and social climate, then because of our personal experiences: a life-threatening illness, or the break-up of a marriage or friendship, a damaged career or an uncertain economic future. Like Jesus, we must speak to our fears, says Brother David Vryhof.
The Quid for Which There is No Quo
Consider the Amaryllis Belladonna, that, like the lilies of the field, “neither toil nor spin” (Matt 6:28) yet are beautiful. And they show up just when you have given them up for dead. Perhaps there is a lesson for us in the flowers.
From Daily Good.
Prayer Times
Deacon Joanna Seibert reminds us that from our Jewish forebearers we inherited a pattern of prayer three times a day. Early Christians often took to heart Psalm 119:164, “Seven times a day do I praise you.” By the Middle Ages, says Seibert, monks had developed a tradition of seven daily prayer times. In our day we can strengthen our prayers by intentionally adding Noonday Prayers and Compline to our daily routine. The forms for both are in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.
From Joanna Seibert.
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