A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
When the currents of our life change, drowning us in demands, expectations, and information, that’s when we need something to hold on to that will help us focus and draw back to what is most important in our lives.
-Martin Lonnebo, Pearls of Life For the Personal Spiritual Journey
Save the date for our Fall Quiet Day
November 30, 9 a.m. to noon
In person At the Bishop Jones Center
In San Antonio
And online by Zoom
Registration opens Nov. 1
Cost of $10
For more info: marjoriegeorge62@gmail.com
Waiting with All Creation
For Advent, the Wisdom Years community will read All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss. it is a gentle read in which we learn from the animals what it means to wait in darkness for the new creation that is coming to us in the incarnation of God’s self.
For the details, click here.
In the Face of War
It’s a hard time to stay faithful, says Tiffany Clark. it is hard to look with one eye at Christ’s perfect reign in the kingdom of heaven and with the other eye at the mess that comes when humans reject and oppose that kingdom. She offers some suggestions for how to stay faithful and maintain hope.
Found at Renovare.
Our Most Common Sin
We operate, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser, too often out of anger, an anger that parades itself as Godly-virtue, as righteousness, as prophecy, as a healthy, divinely-inspired militancy for truth, for cause, for virtue, for God. The prophets operated always out of love, not out of anger.
The Soul of Sound and Silence
It takes both the notes and the silence between the notes to make a beautiful piece of music. We remember that Elijah did not find God in the cataclysms of nature but in the silence that followed them. In the silence we realize that God is always with us but we do not always hear it.
En-Lightening
A poem by Tash Shadman
And as I want for
Words to come,
Ideas to flow,
Pain to go,
I suffer my judgment of what is so.
From Awakin.
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