A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Our breath is also like a wave, gently rocking us into a deep peace. In this state of rest, our body and mind can release their burdens.
A lot of healing happens just by letting go and sinking into this state of total relaxation.
-Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Found in Well for the Journey
Save the date!
A Wisdom Years Quiet Morning
on the peaceful and beautiful grounds of the Bishop Jones Center in San Antonio.
Saturday, April 27, 9 a.m. to noon.
A Pilgrimage of Wisdom
Pilgrims are those who walk not to a particular destination but simply to see where God takes them. In their book Pilgrimage into the Last Third of Life, authors Jane Marie Thibault and Richard L. Morgan invite us to walk through seven gateways that we encounter as we age. With the book as a guide, the next Wisdom Years study will join the authors in our own pilgrimage with trusted companions. The study begins April 18.
For all the details, follow this link.
Surprise Visits
Joanna Seibert points out that in the resurrection stories, we see Jesus in ordinary settings – cooking, eating, walking on the road – not coming to his disciples, and to us, from on high but in everyday encounters.
From Joanna Seibert.
Practicing Sabbath
In a moving remembrance, biblical scholar Renita J. Weems recalls the Sabbath of her childhood: the one day a week when Black workers could set aside worries about the mundane and renew their love affair with eternity….
The Inward Sea
In a brief poem, Howard Thurman reminds us that we can only touch our sacredness with our own inner authority and consent. Thurman describes it as the angel with the flaming sword so that nothing can be placed upon our altar without our consent.
From Awakin.
Being Saved by the Good Shepherd
“Have you been saved?” we are sometimes questioned by certain Christian evangelists. But salvation is not a one-step process, says Br. Jonathan Maury. Rather, “the Gospel calls us to examine what it actually means ‘to be saved’; to embrace the fulness of this salvation and to understand its meaning and urgency for our mortal lives and how we shall live, in these present days.”
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