A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
When people enter into difficult conversations with honest love – able to deeply disagree and be disagreed with, without questioning the human dignity of the other – they have chosen to what they belong: love, reconciliation, and God.
Advent Rejoicing
Life is messy. But our God promises to stand with us in the midst of it. That is the message of Advent, says writer and podcaster Kate Bowler. This Advent, the Wisdom Years community will connect with the Advent message using Kate’s offering The Weary World Rejoices. We will read daily devotionals on our own, then come together on Thursdays, Dec. 5, 12 and 19 for an hour of online conversation.
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This is the Way, Walk in It
“For a path to be a path, you have to be able to see it, more or less, or at least catch glimpses of it, every so often,” says Br. James Koester. “And for that to happen, somebody needs to have walked it ahead of you.” Are you leaving a path for those coming behind you?
We Cannot Be Self-Made
We belong to each other; we are created in part by our relationships with each other. The African word for it is ubuntu. “A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished.”
The Tower of Babel
It was at the building of the tower of Babel when suddenly people began to speak in many different languages such that they could no longer understand each other. We no longer speak the same language in this country, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser. “We can no longer understand each other on virtually every key issue. We no longer share any common truths. Rather, we all have our own truth, our own individual language.” (Painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder created in 1563. Public domain.)
From the blog of Ron Rolheiser.
The Good News You Might Have Missed
Yes, it’s scary out there. Yep, the world is going to hell in a handbasket. But now for some good news.
Watch the video or read the transcript.
Found in Daily Good.
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