A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Prayer is a mystery that begins in God. Our prayer is always in response to God’s initiative. It is God who has caught our attention.
Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE
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Space that can Heal
Stillness and silence can be a fullness, rather than a void, says Terry Hershey. Healing space, he adds, is “an invitation to the sacrament of the present moment. To be here now. Fully.”
From Sabbath Moment.
God Is Bringing Us Home
As we age, we face “uncreation,” says Richard Rohr. What we have created in our younger years is no longer important. “My self-created self gave me a nice trail to walk on, and something to do each day, but it isn’t really me. It might be my career or my vocation; yet as good as it is, it isn’t my True Self. ”
Following Jesus – According to the Letter or the Spirit?
No matter how determined we are to right the wrongs of the Church, our bitterness, anger, judgmentalism, and mean spiritedness are not the way to do it, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser. Right truth and right morals don’t necessarily make us disciples of Jesus.
Luminous Darkness and Holding My Thumb
Lucy Grace grew up in a neighborhood where gangs ruled and initiation into them involved things like raping someone’s mother. But Lucy learned to hold her thumb as a symbol of how things would be better some day.
Found in Daily Good.
Love God and Do What You Want
It is always a shock to learn that St Augustine said, “Love God and do what you want.” The kicker is that if we love God, what we will want is to be like Jesus. To do that, we must learn to love as Jesus did.
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