A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
Starhawk, American author and activist
From Well for the Journey.
Living into All the Honey: Embracing Grief and Joy
Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer reads poems that span grief and joy from her new collection, All the Honey. She speaks of what she knows now about grief she didn’t know before her son died.
From Karmatube
The First Bible
We are all connected, says Richard Rohr. Everything is part of everything else. Rohr says, “We now take it for granted that everything in the universe is deeply connected and linked, even light itself, which interestingly is the first act of creation” (Genesis 1:3).
Knowing More Than We Know
How do we make decisions? Is it only facts and probabilities that we depend on to try to find the right choice? Or do we rely on some inner sense that we just know is correct? Mary’s acceptance of becoming the mother of Jesus did not come from reason.
On Friendship
“One of the richest experiences of grace that we can have this side of eternity is the experience of friendship,” says Ron Rolheiser. “True friendship is only possible among people who are practicing virtue,” he adds. “A gang is not a circle of friendship, nor are many ideological circles. Why? Because friendship needs to bring grace and grace is only found in virtue.”
From Ron Rolheiser.
Join Election Night Virtual Prayers
Everyone is invited to join Election Night Virtual Prayers hosted by The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations from 8 to 10 p.m. (ET) Nov. 5.
Bishop Sean Rowe, who will become Episcopal Church presiding bishop on Nov. 1, will offer an opening reflection and prayer.
Episcopalians from around the church will hold silence and lead participants in prayers together for peace, the nation, and all people and countries.
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