A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Many of us have lives that are full. We have full bellies, full closets, full calendars, full trash cans, full purses and full email inboxes. But at the end of the day, we are empty. God made us all with a built-in desire to find the meaning to life and to spend time on things that are meaningful.
-Courtney Joseph and Beverly Wise, Ecclesiastes: Wisdom for Living Well
From Well for the Journey
Sacred Time
We treat time as a commodity: We talk about how we plan to “spend” it, and calculate how much we will need to complete a certain task.
But author Christine Valters Paintner invites us to a different experience of time; she encourages us to see time as offering us invitations rather than making demands on us.
Our online fall study will explore our relationship with time using the book Sacred Time. It begins Thursday, Sept. 5.
Wingspan of the Soul
The world tells us we are not enough: not adequate, not prepared, not smart enough. But Paul, in the letter to the Colossians, reminds us that in Christ we are more than enough. We are inheritors of Christ’s power.
Read or listen to the sermon from Br. Keith Nelson of SSJE.
How Kids Describe Love
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds: “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. Read and enjoy.
Read what the children had to say.
From Daily Good.
Wise Selfishness
What’s the difference between wise selfishness and foolish selfishness? Feeding the soul of another that also feeds our soul is wise selfishness. An act of loving-kindness is always wise selfishness.
From Joanna Seibert.
The Great Divide
A poem.
On the left there is business
It loves to think and problem solve
Perform so hard it wears you down
If only it would stop to breathe and look around
From Awakin.
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