A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
We are all better than we know.
If only we can come to discover this,
we may never again settle for anything less.
-Kurt Hahn, co-founder, Outward Bound
An Ode To Imagination
It is our ability to imagine what does not yet exist, and then to create it, that is unique to our species, says writer Geneen Marie Haugen. “The human imagination may be our greatest unacknowledged and underutilized innate capacity,” she says.
From Awakin.
11 Interventions in the 10 Days of Your Dying
If you have lost a loved one, you will resonate with this remembrance of the days of death. It is the little details that embed themselves in memory.
From Orion Magazine.
Be Awake
When Jesus tells his followers to watch and be awake, (Mark 13:33–35) he is not threatening us or talking about punishment. He is reminding us to be fully conscious to his presence among us all the time. We say, “Christ will come again,” but Christ is already and always here. We are called to participate in the “sacrament of the present moment.”
You Shall Have no Other Gods Before Me
What is idolatry? Most of us are not making a golden calf in the basement, but we diminish God in very many ways. “Whenever we conceive of God as somehow being defensive, exotic, anti-enjoyment, less compassionate and intelligent than ourselves, and preferring orthodoxy to compassion, we are breaking the first commandment. Such is idolatry,” says Fr. Ron Rolheiser.
From the blog of Ron Rolheiser.
Finishing Craft Projects with Love
Donna Savastio started making a rug as a gift for her sister. But when she developed Alzheimer’s disease, she could no longer follow the intricate instructions to complete the rug. Out of seemingly nowhere someone showed up who offered to complete the rug. He was from Loose Ends, a program that matches volunteer knitters, quilters and other crafters with projects left unfinished when a person dies or becomes disabled.
Found in Karuna News.
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