A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
I want to stand by the river…I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness. I want to dance for the renewal of the world.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Found in Well for the Journey
Preparing For Advent: Watch For The Light
Deacon Joanna Seibert recommends a book she returns to every Advent, re-reading with joy her previously underlined passages. The editors, in their introduction, remark that the main purpose of the book is “to encourage the rediscovery of Advent as a season of inward preparation.”
From Joanna Seibert’s Daily Something.
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. And a reading list of Advent books.
And our Advent book study of All Creation Waits.
Advent begins Dec. 3.
Real and False Humility
Humility, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser, does not consist of “self-effacement, self-deprecation, never blowing our own horn.” Humility is recognizing the gifts God has placed in us and offering them to God for the furthering of God’s kingdom.
More from Ron Rolheiser.
Gratefully Navigating the Holidays
The holidays can be joy-filled and delightful, but they can also be painful, especially for those who have lost a loved one in the past year. We remember how it was last year, when our loved one was here, and are appropriately sad. Joe Pimo of Grateful Living offers some suggestions for navigating the holidays this year.
From Grateful Living.
Take courage … I am with you … do not fear
God’s people had finally returned from exile and found their temple was in ruins. So much work needed to be done to rebuild it. Despair and discouragement set in. But God said, “Yet now take courage … for I am with you … do not fear.” As God often says to us.
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