Communities everywhere are organizing neighborhood clean-ups, transforming neglected spaces into places of beauty. Our hearts need that same tender attention.
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Tag: Holy Spirit
Day 11 — Opening the Hands
Day 10 — The Courage to Stop
Clearing space
Sometimes the holiest thing we can do is stop. Leaders across industries are taking sabbaticals, recognizing that constant motion can numb the soul.
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Clearing space
Some things quietly drain our spirit without us realizing it—habits, expectations, patterns of thought. Many people are reevaluating their digital lives this year, recognizing how constant noise shapes the heart.
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Awakening to goodness
Transformation rarely happens quickly. It unfolds like the slow restoration of a damaged landscape—patient, hidden, steady.
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Awakening to Goodness
God meets us in truth, not performance.
Day 3 — Receiving Before Doing
Awakening to Goodness
We often enter Lent with plans and promises, but renewal begins with receiving.
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Awakening to Goodness
Lent begins with a simple movement of the heart—a quiet turning toward God who is already turned toward us. Ignatian spirituality reminds us that grace is always at work in the ordinary, inviting us into deeper relationship.
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A Lenten Journey of Attention, Encounter, and Transformation
Lent is often imagined as a season of tightening, striving, or giving things up. But beneath all of that is a quieter invitation: to make space for God. Renewal doesn’t begin with effort—it begins with awareness. With noticing. By allowing ourselves to be met by the One who is already near.
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Lent is two days away. That usually means penance, abstinence, suffering. Or so we might think.
If the thought of Lent this year makes you feel weighed down, oppressed even, as if the practices are just one more thing to “do,” then it may be time for a gentle reboot.
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Smitten With Goodness 