Surrender: A prayer of acceptance when you’ve done enough
When you realize that your need to help is actually hurting–both yourselves and others–it is time to surrender with prayer.
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Finding Self in the Inner Sanctuary
In a place of sacred pause, calm, and clarity, you can find yourself.
Good Friday Mediation: Admitting Fault is Restorative
We atone, but always with hope in the Resurrection. How do you approach God: with confidence in his mercy or temerity?
Have No Desire to be Perfect
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.
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.
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 .”
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.
Pray: Tears are a Gift
Tears can be holy water if we are brave enough to share our grief and joy and ecstasy and despair with others.