Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality
Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories
-
Days 60-61 – Sacred Encounters Through The Four Relationships
Any encounter can be sacred. Its sacredness depends on whether we are open to God. Continue reading
-
Days 58-59 “Who Are You Reading?”
“There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul has needed and he never knew it.” Roger Mifflin (Bookstore proprietor and character in the book, The Haunted Bookshop.) … Continue reading
-
Day 57 – Living Love, Not Fear: Breaking Our Patterns
We need to change our thinking patterns to live Love, not fear. Continue reading
-
Days 55-56 – Love’s Human Flaws
We are vessels of Love. But, Love is perfect. We are not…Public examples can lead to our private, and more personal, understanding of Love. Continue reading
-
Days 53-54 – Love’s Three Commandments Revisited With Three Symbols
This may be why Love comes via an open and humble heart and cannot be grabbed with the use of a closed fist. Continue reading
-
Days 51-52 A Pilgrimage of the Heart
“Too late have I loved you, O Beauty so ancient and new, too late have I loved you! Behold, you were within me while I was outside; it was there that I sought you, and rushed headlong upon these… Continue reading
-
Days 49-50 – The Lenten Choice
If someone can tell me a good reason for anger, I’d love to hear it. Continue reading
-
Day 48 – Making Compassion a Verb in Our Lives
"Compassion is a verb." – Thich Nhat Hanh (left) Many well-meaning people enjoy telling nurses and other caregivers, "Oh, I could never do what you do. I am too sensitive." The surprise in a statement like this is that… Continue reading
-
Days 46-47 – The Magic of Remembering
Sunday night, we took turns sharing memories of my father, handing our stories to each other around a circular dinner table. "I remember riding on his shoulders when I was three," my younger sister said about our late… Continue reading
-
Days 44-45 – Life’s Inconveniences
"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one’s "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life." ~C.S. Lewis “When… Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 