A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
-Og Mandino, quoted in A Better Way to Live by Craig Lock
Joseph and the Christmas Story
Like Joseph, stepfather of Jesus, sometimes we need to be willing to live righteously and follow the rules but be open to mystery. “What does one do when God breaks into one’s life in new, previously unimaginable ways?” asks Fr. Ron Rolheiser.
From Ron Rolheiser blog.
Sharing Someone Else’s Wound
When have you put yourself in danger to save another person’s life? When has someone done that for you? In World War II a Polish man purposely contracted a disease so he could share his medicine with a Jewish woman in a concentration camp.
From Awakin.
Letting God Be God
Explaining God is impossible and unnecessary. “If God is always Mystery, then God is always in some way the unfamiliar, beyond what we’re used to, beyond our comfort zone, beyond what we can explain or understand,” says Richard Rohr.
Kindness
A kindness from a total stranger reminded Joyce Rupp of how often one kindness brings forth others. Like watermelons whose seeds produce more watermelons.
If Only
We all have times when we think changing one thing would change everything. If only my boss would give me a chance, we say. If only the children would behave. If only we had more money. If only Messiah would come, thought the Hebrews of Palestine. And he did. And it was they who needed to change.
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