Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality
Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories
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Days 350-354 – Witness to Tears
Caregivers are tear-catchers as well as wound-menders. Day & night they bear witness to suffering, often hiding their own tears so that they may help others. Continue reading
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Days 348-349 A Radiant Heart of Wonder
Third Week of Avent, Joy Continue reading
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Days 343-347 – Pride or Gratitude?
It is nice to be proud of offspring. Yet, Love teaches that gratitude is far better than pride. Continue reading
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Days 341-342 Amazing Peace
Note: Excerpt of poem "Amazing Peace," a Christmas poem by Maya Angelou Something to consider this during this unfolding Advent week that calls us to cultivate Peace within. We hear a whisperAt first it is too soft. Then only… Continue reading
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Days 336-340 – How Storypower Made Illness a Gift
After essayist Anatole Broyard learned he was terminally ill he made a transcendent choice: To change his life story. “All of my old trivial selves fell away and I was reduced to my essence,” he wrote. Thus, he took control… Continue reading
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Days 334-335 The Hope of Advent
Note: This reflection is from several writings, over the years, on Advent by Sister Joan Chittister Dec 1st heralds the beginning of the Advent season, and is described as a “highly spiritual time as we prepare… Continue reading
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Days 228-232 – Vibrations of Love & Fear
Some believe that all life exists as vibrations; that the bodies we occupy are waves of energy we perceive as human forms. Fear's energy visits all animals. I imagine it as traveling the air in tight, frenzied vibrations… Continue reading
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Days 326-327 If Only…
If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and will also probably commit great faults and do wrong things. But it certainly is… Continue reading
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Days 320-321 Little Glimmers
A woman with a scarf over her head hoists her six year old up onto the first step of the school bus. “Good-bye,” she says. A father on the phone with his freshman son has just finished bawling him… Continue reading
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Days 313-314 The Wonder in Everyday
Note: Guest Reflection by Terry Chapman PhD I’m sure you’ve seen the video of a jet plane in trouble as the oxygen masks drop to the terrified passengers below? Giving yourself oxygen first before giving it to kids or other… Continue reading
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