A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Creativity flourishes not in certainty but in questions … Yet the seduction is always in security rather than venturing, instant knowing rather than deliberate waiting.
-Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits
July 15, 2023
For “Claiming My Now”
A half-day hybrid workshop in-person at the Bishop Jones Center in San Antonio and on Zoom.
For adults in the last third of their lives
From The Wisdom Years
$20
“I will start from here,” said Bishop Steven Charleston. In this workshop we will ask ourselves,
“Where is my ‘here’ in this season of my life?
What nurtures my soul?
What obstacles do I face?
How can we navigate together the outrageous joys as well as the deep sorrows of these years?
Join us for reflection, conversation, sharing of wisdom, and time on the grounds of the Bishop Jones Center.
Registration for “Claiming My Now” opens in mid-June. To indicate your interest in the workshop, send an email to Marjorie George at marjoriegeorge62@gmail.com.
12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing
The delightful and wise writer Anne Lamott offers 12 things she knows almost for sure as she leans in to being over 60. Thing number 2, for instance, is “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you. ”
Read or listen to the TED Talk.
Found in Daily Good.
Resurrection is Messy
Our true selves are not defined by our virtue or accomplishments. Our true selves are known best by our scars. Jesus’ scars did not go away after he was raised from death. When he appeared to his disciples he invited them to see the scars on his hands and his side.
Synchronicity
We all have had the experience of running into just the right person, receiving just the right phone call, coming across just the right word when we needed it. These coincidences are known by some as times of “synchronicity.” Patrick Murray calls them “moments of transformation.” They embrace us with a profound sense that life is ultimately purposeful, says Joanna Seibert.
From Joanna Seibert.
Shape Of Silence
Writer Kent Nerburn invites us to pay attention to the silence that surrounds each day. “A day comes alive by the silence that surrounds our actions,” he says. “The shape of the silence that surrounds us . . . opens our heart to the unseen, and reminds us that the world is larger than the events that fill our days.”
From Awakin.
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