Everyone has heard people quarreling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant, but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kind of things they say. C.S. Lewis Last week in my reflection I talked about how the words are made of, namely, “air.” I…
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Words are made of air!
In order for communication to occur, you need someone watching who also knows the language. – When God is Silent: Divine Language Beyond Words by Barbara Brown Taylor. In the midst of all misunderstanding, ignorance, anxieties, and fears surrounding the COVID19 shots, I had been reflecting on this quote above from Barbara Brown Taylor. We might…
Murmuring Stream
“Prayer takes a firm and steadfast hold when a small fire begins to burn in the heart. Try not to quench this fire, and it will become established in such a way that the prayer life repeats itself: and then you will have within you a small murmuring stream.” Fr. Henry Nouwen St. Paul often…
Heart Strings!
Spiritual formation, I have come to believe, is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It’s about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in it’s many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves. Fr. Henry Nouwen. What are the many forms of prayer…
Walk God-ward!
To live spiritually, we seek to breathe with the Spirit’s rhythm and move in a God-ward direction on the long walk of faith. Fr. Hendry Nouwen. We wake up in the morning and move towards something better than yesterday. If not, we have a problem. The problem for a lot of people is to live…