A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
I pray that I may serve by doing what is mine to do, knowing I will remember and forget, find and lose, knowing too that your infinite grace is everywhere when I choose to be attuned.
-Danna Faulds, “Prayers to the Infinite”
From Well for the Journey
What Is New and What Is Old
There are going to be tears and holes in the fabric of our lives. That is when we must remember our history – that Christ has always been with us, has always rescued us. “Remember your past, draw on your past, how you’ve been provided for, sustained, protected, healed, empowered up until now,” says Br. Curtis Almquist.
May You Live Long Enough
To be able to laugh at your most embarrassing moments in the past; To side with your former adversaries, if only for a glancing moment; To experience prayer as the automatic breathing of petitions for others’ good; and other short bits of wisdom.
From Joanna Seibert.
The Point Is to Grow
It was out of deep grief that Paula D’Arcy’s heart was opened. “Now that suffering was a lived experience, I realized there was so much I needed to change about how I understood life,” she says. “I had to move beyond my old conclusions.”
Learning To Trust The Slow Work Of God
How long does it take to become more like Jesus? Oh, a lifetime or so. “Transformation almost always happens at a pace slower than we would expect or desire,” says Carolyn Arends.
From Renovare.
Have I Been Saved?
That is the wrong question, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser. The real question, especially at this stage of life, is “How can I help?” “A non-negotiable part of meeting Jesus,” says Rolheiser, “means being sent out, and not just alone on some private spiritual quest or individualized ministry. It means being called into community . . .”
From the blog of Ron Rolheiser.
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