Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping
Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.
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Love, Pray, Listen, then let prodigal children go
We wait for our adult kids. And we rely on the Father, who understands. After all,. we also were wayward prodigals once, living for our whims.
Listening for the holy means accepting others as beloved.
“It was not until I lost my hearing that I started learning to listen .”
Spiritual Reading can help us heal
In a new book, RPW Host Jean P. Kelly tells how Spiritual Reading allowed her to recognize and avoid unhealthy relationships. She shows readers how to rewrite their own stories, receiving wisdom offered by the world’s greatest spiritual teachers.
Speak with Love, not Judgement
Love of neighbor requires holding our tongue and not correcting others, says Catherine of Sienna and this month’s author.
Pray: Even negative emotions can be welcomed as guests
Ancient poet, Rumi, encourages us to accept all emotions as bearers of wisdom.
A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]
A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.
Pray: Death teaches love & how to “be”
Two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a journalist—ponder the universal questions about the meaning of life through death.
Pray: No one is excluded from God’s love & mercy.
Inclusion, an act of mercy, is manifested in opening one’s arms wide to welcome without excluding or labeling others–Pope Francis
Pray: Untie knots with Mary’s healing
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.