Freedom from Judging, Freedom for mercy · Mar 9, 08:55 AM
We spend an enormous amount of energy making up our minds about other people. Not a day goes by without somebody doing or saying something that evokes in us the need to form an opinion …
Letting Go of Our Fear of emptiness · Mar 1, 05:14 PM
We are afraid of emptiness. Spinoza speaks about our “horror vacui,” our horrendous fear of vacancy. We like to occupy-fill up-every empty time and space. We want to be occupied. And if we are not occupied we easily become preoccupied; that is, we fill the empty spaces before we have even reached them. We fill them with our worries, saying, “But what if …”
ECC 3:8 A time to love… · Feb 7, 03:00 PM
We just celebrated the wedding of our youngest daughter, Ruth to Mike Rivera, in our home on January31st in the afternoon…
Creating Space to Dance Together · Jan 20, 10:28 AM
When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, “Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.” …
The Still, Small Voice of Love · Jan 13, 09:26 AM
Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, “Prove that you are a good person.” Another voice says, “You’d better be ashamed of yourself.” There also is a voice that says, “Nobody really cares about you,” and one that says, “Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.” But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, “You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.” That’s the voice we need most of all to hear. To hear that voice, however, requires special effort; it requires solitude, silence, and a strong determination to listen.
That’s what prayer is. It is listening to the voice that calls us “my Beloved.” (Henry Nouwen)
Enough Light for the Next Step · Jan 8, 09:25 AM
(Henri Nouwen) Often we want to be able to see into the future. We say, “How will next year be for me? Where will I be five or ten years from now?”
Spiritual Choices · Jan 6, 08:54 AM
(Henri Nouwen) Choices. Choices make the difference. Two people are in the same accident and severely wounded. They did not choose to be in the accident. It happened to them. But one of them chose to live the experience in bitterness, the other in gratitude. These choices radically influenced their lives and the lives of their families and friends. We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens. It is precisely these spiritual choices that determine whether we live our lives with dignity.
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