Sometimes my heart does not know how to pray. It is one of the most difficult places I live. But it happens sometimes. It is an honest place, that land where all…
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Violence that takes innocent life, and while people are at prayer, is a growing wound in the human community. It is a devastating sign of the brokenness in our world. Our hearts are broken too, and we wonder what we are to do.
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On January 17, the world lost one of the greatest poets and human beings of our time. More than almost any other poet of the 20th and 21st centuries, Mary Oliver wrote poems that…
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I heard a story once told by Nancy Lopez, one of the most decorated women golfers in US history. She was describing a time in her career when she became so burned out from the professional circuit, she abruptly dropped out of all scheduled tournaments, admitting…
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Early in the second century BCE, when the Jewish people went to rededicate their temple after it had been plundered and desecrated by pagan oppressors, the principle act was…
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"I just learned that my friend, teacher, and mentor, Father Thomas Keating has died. I was with him months ago and asked him how he was preparing to die.
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If you had to choose an object today that described your spiritual life, what would it be? This question, and our hearts response, help us find language for the great mystery of our life in God. As I ponder this..
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To go on pilgrimage is not simply to visit a place to admire its treasures of nature, art or history. To go on pilgrimage really means…
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When I was thirty years old, and just beginning my ministry, someone taught me how to needlepoint. I thought needlepoint was for grandmothers, not…
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The word companion literally means "with bread." A companion is one with whom you break bread and share the things that sustain life.
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For most of my life, sorrow has been a kind of wallpaper feeling inside. It is always there. It isn’t the furniture I sit on, or even pictures that hang on the wall, but an ever-present backdrop.
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Yesterday morning it rained. In this coastal desert climate I call home, rain is a spiritual experience for me. Our land and our lives are challenged by a lack of rain.
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