A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
We’re here for a little window. And to use that time to catch and share shards of light and laughter and grace seems to me the great story.
-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song
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Advent Resources
Even in the darkness we wait, for we have been promised a light that will shine in the darkness, and the darkness will never be able to overcome it (Jn 1:5)
From our website for your Advent journey:
A collection of daily meditations and and inspirations for Advent for you to choose from.
Plus our own Advent Quiet Day on Nov 30.
And our Advent book study of All Creation Waits.
Advent begins Dec. 3.
The True You
Renovare offers three meditations that focus on remembering how much God loves us just as we are. With reflection questions and the opportunity to respond.
From Renovare.
What is it Like Being You?
We get labeled and categorized right from our birth. What if this causes us to never look deeply into who we are, and who are the people we think are so different from us? God’s creation is full of diversity, and God invites us to take pleasure in that.
A Breakthrough in Consciousness
“Aging can be either a life of nostalgia or a wholehearted engagement with the future,” says Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio in a meditation for Center for Action and Contemplation. When we live in what she calls “integrated consciousness” we live in moments of failure or disruption “with a lightness of spirit, a sense of openness to divine love.”
Affective Prayer
Too often, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser, our prayers are from our intellect instead of our heart. “What is common in prayer,” he says, “is the tendency to talk to ourselves rather than to God.” What we most need in prayer is to hear God say that he loves us. We need to hear this in our hearts, not our minds.
From Ron Rolheiser.
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