A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Community is first of all a quality of the heart.
It grows from the knowledge that we are alive
not for ourselves but for one another.
-Henri J. M. Nouwen, Bread 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.
The Righteousness of God
“We are called into partnership with Jesus to care about how the world around us does or does not conform to God’s design,” writes Frederick Schmidt. We do that in part by making daily personal choices that witness to God’s presence in our lives.
From Joanna Seibert.
Order, Disorder, Reorder
At some point in our lives, there will likely be a death, a disease, a disruption to our normal way of thinking or being in the world. We will find ourselves in great disorder. It is necessary if any real growth is to occur, says Richard Rohr.
The Problem of Suffering and Evil
It is a question so many people ask: How can a loving God allow suffering in this world? Is it about God giving us humans free will? Can we see God as a redeeming God instead of a rescuing God? Fr. Ron Rolheiser offers some thoughts.
From Ron Rolheiser.
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton takes us on a short journey of natural silence. Hempton defines silence not as the absence of sound, but as a void of noise pollution created by modern life, and warns that, with the pervasiveness of noise pollution, “silence is on the verge of extinction.”
From Karmatube.
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