A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you.
-Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom, Stories That Heal
Feeling Lost? Here Are Four Steps to Finding Your Path
No matter our age, checking in with ourselves to see if we are living our values adds meaning and purpose to life. Here are some research-tested ways to figure out a way forward when we get derailed.
Flying Loose in Turbulent Times
“We are living through the breakdown and breaking open of much that has defined modern life,” says Cameron Timble, a pilot and pastor. It’s time to loosen our grip.
Healing Power of Sanctuary
Terry Hershey quotes Joseph Campbell: we all must “have a room, or a certain hour (or so) a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. If you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
From Sabbath Moment.
Remaining Grace
Abide has a “gutsy quality” to it, says Br. Luke Ditewig. “Abide also means to remain or to stick with through challenge. Jesus says: ‘the Father stuck with me. I’ll stick with you no matter what. Abide in my love,’ Jesus says. ‘Remain with me.’ ”
Ultimate Consolation
Do we always have to open the door to let Christ in? Is the doorknob on the inside or on the outside? In John’s gospel, Christ goes to the huddled disciples after the resurrection and walks through the door. What does that teach us?
From Fr. Ron Rolheiser.
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