A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Life is too short and too beautiful to sleepwalk through it. Let’s stay awake, pay attention, and keep our eyes open…to see God.
Adam Bucko, Let Heartbreak Be Your Guide
From Well for the Journey
Understanding and Appreciating Our Differences
Our differences are grace, contends Fr. Ron Rolheiser. There is in scripture a “strong, recurring motif,” says Rolheiser, “that God’s message to us generally comes through the stranger, the foreigner, from the one who is different from us, from a source from which we would never expect to hear God’s voice.”
From the blog of Ron Rolheiser.
Praying With the News
Sometimes – actually often these days – the evening news programs leave us in anger and fear when we learn about the hatred and divisiveness of our society. But Rabbi Yael Levy uses this opportunity to pray for those affected by what we see and hear.
From Awakin.
Pathway Of Discernment
Ignatius of Loyola taught a method of discernment that involves active imagination. It includes envisioning the outcomes from the choices we make. The presence of peace becomes the defining moment.
Sitting Alongside Suffering
What do we do when we cannot alleviate the suffering of someone we love? We want to spare this person’s pain, but we cannot. Best to sit alongside and massage the person’s feet.
From The Examined Family.
Who Is My Neighbor?
The story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), says Brother Geoffrey Tristram of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, is about boundaries. The priest and the Levite who “walked by on the other side” when they saw the beaten and robbed man were staying within the boundaries set by their religion and culture. The story is about God’s mercy – a mercy that has no boundaries.
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