So much of my life I was caught up in what people would say instead of basing reality on their behaviors. This likely stems from having significant relationships in my life who were emotionally unavailable to me in my formative years. This destructive coping mechanism led me into a lot of wishful thinking and living… Continue reading Good Friday Lord’s Passion: Action Speaks Louder than Words
Father Richard Rohr offers a practice of deepening love and healing, teaching us to rest in love a place where we are seen.
In the Franciscan Way, Father Richard encourages students in the Franciscan mystical practice of respectful gazing:
To live a meaningful and blessed life, we are to do two things: love God and care for our neighbor. Justice is where we give our neighbor their due. When we work for justice, we find peace. As our acts of justice grow in love, we bear the fruit of generosity. Love is not defined… Continue reading Week 49. Action of Love. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary.
We live in a hard world, especially in the west where we are taught to be independent, self-reliant, and to look out for number one. While this has worldly benefits, over time, our hearts become hardened, we live in our heads, and rarely let our guard down. This is counter to what the spiritual life… Continue reading Week 48. Gentleness. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary.
Compassion brings healing into our lives. It is justice in action, giving others their due. Grace is usually involved in deepening our own knowing of ourselves and God. Take some time to walk through a situation that comes to mind that needs healing and journal through these four steps of Compassionate Communication.
A Practice of Feeling Peace The Institute of Heartmath has done extensive research to develop a theory that when all of our organs are working together in simultaneous rhythm, our minds and our emotions tend to be more stable. More specifically, when the rhythm of our heartbeat remains even, we are able to think more… Continue reading Week 46. Language of Life. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary
Meditation on Hope and Love in a Time of Struggle by Alice Anacheka-Nasemann. In a world so filled with brokenness and sorrow It would be easy to lose ourselves in never ending grief, To be choked by our outrage To be paralyzed by the enormity of suffering, To feel our hearts squeeze tight with hopelessness.… Continue reading Week 45. Hope for Justice. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary.
To live justly we must constantly walk through the doorway of our shared inheritance.
When faithfulness is our standard, we are more likely to sustain our engagement with tasks that will never end: doing justice, loving mercy, and calling the beloved community into being. We must make “Love one another as I have loved you” (John 13:34) the foundation of national respect, the standard of our national discernment, the… Continue reading Week 43. Faithfulness. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary.
Smitten With Goodness 