A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
What could you possibly lose by seeking the peace of another person — by literally making another’s peace your goal?
-Hugh Prather, How To Live in the World and Still Be Happy
From Well for the Journey
Wrapping Ourselves in Nature this Fall
Two offerings from The Wisdom Years – a fall Quiet Day and an Advent book study – will draw us into the bounties and blessings of nature this fall. Our fall Quiet Day, actually a morning, will offer opportunity to wander the beautiful grounds of Cathedral Park in San Antonio on Nov. 30. Click here for the details.
Our Advent study will embrace daily meditations from the animals using Gayle Boss’s All Creation Waits. We gather on Thursdays Dec. 7, 14, and 21 on Zoom for conversation. Click here for details.
Kintsugi: The Golden Joinery of Love
This from a woman who learned how to overcome pain and scars through the ancient Japanese process of repairing broken pottery. It is long but a must-read.
Found in Daily Good.
When Winnie The Pooh Was Scared
Who does not love the oh-so-lovable Winnie the Pooh? But that gentle, mellow bear also gets scared sometimes. Read the response from his little friend Piglet.
From Awakin.
Encouragement: Heart Therapy
If we live in the northern climates, we can watch – and learn from – the geese as they fly south. But even if we do not see them, we can imagine what Brother Curtis Almquist describes. We see the lesson of encouragement in the sky.
God’s Risk, Our Freedom
Why is God so elusive? Why doesn’t God just rise up and demonstrate for once and for all that God is good and just and powerful? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does evil get away with it? Read Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s response.
More about Ron Rolheiser.
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