A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
-Rumi, Love’s Ripening
Found in Well for the Journey
The Light of Grace
His parents told him he could buy whatever he wanted with his newspaper income, but when he bought a conga drum for twenty dollars, his father made him take it back. It was a memory that never left him.
When My Father Faced An Emergency
What did her father do in an emergency, she was asked. You mean like the time the young man held them at knife-point while they were driving on the Big Sur coastline in California? That emergency? He was curious.
From Awakin.
The Story of Accumulation
“The more you think you need to accumulate, the bigger fence you need to build around yourself and the fewer people you will trust and let into your life,” says Gareth Higgins, writing in Center for Action and Contemplation. “It’s the inverse of what it means to live in true peace and security, which only comes in the context of relationship with people you can trust.”
A Lenten Fast to Live By
For what do you hunger? Can you even name it? Peace, yes, and freedom from fear. Safety for our children. A sense of spiritual well-being. And yet, our very daily practices undermine what we claim as our desires. Join the Wisdom Years community for a Lenten fast that invites us to lay down the old patterns and habits that deplete us and obstruct our full access to the divine image into which we were created.
Our study is from Feb 15 to March 21. We will meet weekly on Zoom for conversation, or you can use the material on you own.
From The Wisdom Years.
The Dark Night as Impasse
Many good, healthy Christians speak of the “dark night of the soul,” a time when one feels completely bereft of God. It is a time when, as Fr. Ron Rolheiser puts it, “All the former ways you understood, imagined, and felt about things, especially as this relates to God, faith, and prayer, no longer work for you.”
More about Ron Rolheiser.
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