Sunday’s Blessings: Writing is an Act of Courage
“Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Writing is an Act of Joy and Celebration
“Writing is also an act of joy and celebration. With it we say that life is worth preserving, worth exploring in all its facets, and to do it well we … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Slowing Down
After the flurry of activities, life deliberately provides us with opportunities to slow down and rest. If we have learned to move our focus away from the call of the … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Come to the Center
Come to the center of your being on a daily basis. Gather strength from these moments of powerful prayer. Invoke your highest good. Give yourself the opportunity to open up … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Stars on the Journey
Remember always that the Light is within you. Do not allow what is not in your nature to cloud your vision. Love, faith, trust, hope – these are the … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Love Everywhere
Receive the blessings this day brings and know that in their very being, each person, animal, plant or insect- everything – carries within a very profound message of love. – … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: BEing
Far from the turmoil that now hounds the earth is a state of BEing – a peaceful place available to everyone. It is far because people have distanced themselves from … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Prayer
“In prayer we discover what we already have. You start where you are and you deepen what you already have, and you realize that you are already there. We already … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: A Listening Walk
This morning I took a Listening Walk. I love to take walks but this is the first time I paid attention to the sounds as I walked. I had … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Easter and New Beginnings
“At the breaking of the Easter dawn May the Risen Savior bless your home With grace and peace from above, With joy and laughter, and with love; And when night … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Paths Along the Journey
Life presents us with many paths along our journey. Sometimes the pathways are lovely and make us feel good. Some paths are rugged and look hard to traverse; while others … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Be Thankful
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be thankful when you don’t know something, for … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: A Prayer for Nepal
On this 4th Sunday of the Easter Season, we pause and remember our brothers and sisters in Nepal. Those who perished from the earthquake – May the Light embrace them … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Prayer
“With or without speech, prayer is born of breath and bones, and hearts held open to ancient connection. It is the deepest song of the sea sounding through us. It … Continue reading →
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day!
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” ― David C. Gross in Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs Photo courtesy of MorguefileFiled under: Sunday's Blessings Tagged: … Continue...
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Facing Challenges
“As somebody said to me once, no matter what’s happening, something else is also true. Bad news, shock, trauma can make us feel pinned to the wall. It makes us … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: The Fire of Pentecost
“At Pentecost, initiation occurred not only at the individual level (“and a tongue rested on each of them”) but also at the corporate level. The outpouring of the Spirit upon … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: On the Path
As we tread unknown paths, As we hearken to the call of the Sacred Mystery, May we continue to hold the torch up high and light each other’s paths. … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Journaling as Spiritual Practice
“For much of my own life, journal writing has been an important act of soul centering. Initially unaware of my journal’s spiritual purpose, I later fiercely claimed this writing as … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Embracing the Shadows
“St. Teresa of Avila wrote: ‘All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.’ This is the conviction that we bring with us … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Pope Francis Addresses Every Living Person on this Planet
Pope Francis in his Encyclical, “Laudato Si.” “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: In your light
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that … Continue reading →
View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: Eight Spiritual Practices for Pilgrims
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View ArticleSunday’s Blessings: The garden within us
“Each of us has a garden inside our hearts. We can cultivate this garden, deciding, selecting, filtering, pollinating and cross-pollinating. There is nothing more beautiful than a bee buzzing...
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