A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing. Looking for awe in all of life.
-Lucy Jones, “Creatures that Don’t Conform”
From Well for the Journey
Liminal Space
When our lives revolve around problem-solving, fixing, explaining, and taking sides with winners and losers, it can be a pretty circular and even nonsensical existence, says Richard Rohr. But we have come to accept it as normal. To escape the craziness, Rohr says we must find sacred space, which he calls liminal space.
Gratefulness Happens Before Thinking
It can be just a little thing that changes your mood – suddenly coming across your favorite flower in bloom or an unexpected kindness shown you that makes the world seem a little brighter. Brother David Steindl-Rast observes that a change in attitude changes the way we see the world, and this in turn changes the way we act.
From Awakin.
“Always to Have Mercy”
The woman came to Jesus begging for his help, and he called her a dog. A dog! But she held firm and convinced Jesus to heal her daughter. Br. James Koester preaches on his favorite gospel story. No one is outside Jesus’ love.
Room for the Infinite
In an excerpt from his book The Eternal Promise, Thomas Kelly ponders why Chinese landscape paintings seem incomplete to the Western eye. That is because we live crowded lives. “We leave no room for the Infinite,” says Kelly. The beauty and truth of Chinese landscape paintings is in their starkness. “To crowd the canvas full with finite figures… that would be to miss the most important part of the picture.”
From Renovare.
Anything Natural
To bring your attention to nature is more than thinking about it. There is a being with it. “You sense how deeply it rests in Being – completely at one with what it is and where it is,” says Eckhart Tolle. “In realizing this, you too come to a place of rest deep within yourself.”
From Awakin.
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