What does healthy spiritual life look like? How does it feel? I know people who believe that spiritual health is about what they know. When they have the right answers to important questions, their spiritual life is healthy. I have believed that myself. I know people who believe that spiritual health is about what they do. When they follow […]
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We love life and health. We work very hard to be physically healthy, to build strong physical lives. We want to live as long, and as well, as we can. When we are injured or sick, it is urgent that we get care. It is an emergency. We are anxious about our financial lives. We
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My church has a thing about fire. It is not the church in which I grew up, which was more focused on fire and brimstone. I belong to a liturgical church now. We light at least two candles every time we get together. We have special days we celebrate with a lot of candles, like Christmas
Most of us do not enjoy feeling pain. We do our best to hide from it, and to hide it from everyone else. Pain is something to be relieved, something to be endured, something to be suffered in silence. Never let them see you hurt. We are afraid of pain. The searing heartache of being rejected
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This is a weekend to remember. In the moments between sleeping in, grilling, sporting events, and retail sales, we will remember. We will remember the people who have shaped our lives. People who taught us how to tie our shoes, to read, to tell time, who showed us who we could become. People who gave
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There are people who feel responsible to be beyond perfect. They believe that everything, and everyone, depends on them. They need to be strong, they need to be wise, they need to be right, no matter what they face. Without them, nothing would work the way it is supposed to work. They are essential to
We begin our lives in ways that are beyond our control. We are born into families, into communities, into circumstances we do not choose. We spend our lives working to make something of ourselves, to uncover what we have the potential to become. Life is a process we do not finish; we run out of
I believe in the power of listening. We live in a time when listening has gone out of fashion. We give our lives their own soundtracks so we do not need to listen to the life around us. We wrap our minds in memories, regrets, and fantasies about the future. We distract ourselves from the
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You and I are walking together. We may be headed in different directions, toward different destinations. Your way may seem gentle, with plenty of opportunities to stop and rest, while I am struggling through obstacles. I may feel the sun on my face and a warm breeze while you are headed into darkness. One of us
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I am not always as grateful as I would like to be. Sometimes I see things, situations, even people, as obstacles. I do not look for what I can learn from them. I do not try to find how they can help me recognize my true self, know who I really am. I experience them as
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