A monthly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
All of us are standing on someone else’s shoulders. Someone else who opened the door and paved the way . . . You have a responsibility to open the door and keep this moving.
-Ruby Bridges, as quoted in “The Guardian” on May 6, 2021
Found at Well for the Journey
How All Things Hold Together
In his poem “The Coming,” Welsh poet R. S. Thomas pictures God the creator holding the globe in his hands with Christ looking on. Together they see the suffering and hopelessness man has wrought on the world they created. And Christ says, “Let me go there.”
A Choice for Love
“Love is a decision,” says Richard Roohr. “And we had better make the decision to love early in the day because once we’re a few hours into low-level resentment, anger, or disappointment, it’s too late.
From the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Mourning our Unfinished Symphony
None of us gets the entire symphony in our lifetime. And we need to mourn that incompleteness. “All of us will die with some unfulfilled dreams; none of us will find full, abiding, ecstatic embrace this side of eternity,” says Fr. Ron Rolheiser. How do we come to terms with that?
From the blog of Ron Rolheiser.
Simple Was Satisfying
What makes you smile? Tea on the patio with friends? A face-lick from your dog? It’s about paying attention to the small things. “If you’re completely preoccupied with your medical test or doctor’s appointment next week, you might miss the rare migratory birds outside your window right now,” says Susan Bauer-Wu in this Awakin essay.
From Awakin.
Rethinking the Bucket List
An end-of-life Hospice counselor talks about what people really want in the “last chapter” of their lives. To live each day as if it is your last, says Kathleen Taylor, “discover your uniqueness, do some introspection.” In our last days, we become our authentic selves, says Taylor in this ten-minute TED talk.
From Karma tube.
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