A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
May you know yourself to be a miraculous co-creator with God of the wonders and beauty of creation. And may your work, if only a tiny fraction of it, be a source of joy, pride, and dignity. For in that moment, you will discover what it means to share in the divine life of God.
Br. James Koester, SSJE
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Drawing a Picture of God
We each have a picture of God, whether or not we are aware of that. We may believe that God is an unloving tyrant, or a divine candy machine, or a scrupulous bookkeeper of our sins. Dallas Willard has pointed out that since we live at the mercy of our ideas, we would be wise to reflect carefully on those that we have about God.
From Renovare.
The Practice Before The Practice
A life of spirit, regardless of the path we choose, begins with a person’s acceptance that they are part of something larger than themselves, says Mark Nepo. “We are meaning-seeking creatures,” says Nepo, “looking for what matters though we carry what matters deep within us.”
From Awakin.
The Framed Infinite
Windows are to be looked through, but often they are just overlooked. A window is “a portal, and a horn of plenty, an altar, an avenue whose significance is vital and imperative to life,” says writer Pavithra Mehta. “if you do not have a meaningful relationship with windows, then it is possible, that you have some difficulty perceiving grace,” she says.
From Daily Good.
An Alternate Expression of Love and Trust.
When someone you love is angry with you, it may be that you are the recipient of that person’s anger but not the cause of it. You may be the one safe place where this person can lash out without fear of retaliation and have his or her bitterness absorbed. “But this can be very hard to accept, even when we understand why it’s happening,” says Fr. Ron Rolheiser.
From Ron Rolheiser blog.
Staring Mercy in the Eye
When Brother Jim Woodrum looked at the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), he found that the rich man had probably committed no crime in his acquisition of wealth. Rather his was the sin of omission: He never saw Lazarus lying at his gate.
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