A monthly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey from The Wisdom Years.
Sometimes you can swim with the current to the top of the tide, to the pause between flow and ebb ….
The earth is still turning, and gravity is still pulling …. But in that one spot, you experience stillness.
-Patricia Hanlon, Swimming to the Top of the Tide
Found in Well for the Journey
Not this Time
When will the flashing lights of an EMS vehicle stop at your house? As we face our mortality, we need to take the time to make our inevitable passing as calm and meaningful as possible for everyone, says Sandy Reynolds of “A Crone in the Woods.” Reynolds offers fee-based workshops and retreats about preparing for our deaths. Investigate them in this article.
God is not in lockdown
The Kingdom of God is like treasure hidden in a field, according to Saint Matthew (13:44). The man digging wasn’t looking for treasure, didn’t expect to find any. But there it was. “He was probably in the middle of a rather ordinary job, perhaps digging up a field to sow some seeds,” says Br. Geoffrey Tristram. God is like that – God shows up in the most unexpected places.
Microscope to Telescope: Expand Your Perspective
This practice invites us to spend some time with whatever thought we have been carrying around. Looking at the thought under a microscope is far different than looking at it through a telescope.
Read or listen to do this practice on your own.
From Grateful Living.
Meal-Based Social Action
Jesus didn’t want his community to have a social ethic; he wanted it to be a social ethic, says Richard Rohr. Mostly Jesus proclaimed this not by what he said but by what he did – eating with everyone.
Book Event
The Pilgrim Life: Finding God Along the Way by Deborah Smith Douglas.
From the back cover: “Deborah Douglas not only invites us to become stronger in our faith; she cheers for us as we go along. She celebrates each step. She offers grounded encouragement and heartfelt joy.” The Rev. Mary Earle, from the Foreword.
Deborah will be at St. Mark’s Bookstore in San Antonio on June 17 for Tea, Scones, & Conversation at 1:30 p.m. She and Mary Earle will be in conversation about this book. (They are close personal friends! Promises to be rich!)
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