Have No Desire to be Perfect
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.
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Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping
Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.
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Love, Pray, Listen, then let prodigal children go
We wait for our adult kids. And we rely on the Father, who understands. After all,. we also were wayward prodigals once, living for our whims.
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Listening for the holy means accepting others as beloved.
“It was not until I lost my hearing that I started learning to listen .”
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Speak with Love, not Judgement
Love of neighbor requires holding our tongue and not correcting others, says Catherine of Sienna and this month’s author.
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Pray: Even negative emotions can be welcomed as guests
Ancient poet, Rumi, encourages us to accept all emotions as bearers of wisdom.
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Pray: Tears are a Gift
Tears can be holy water if we are brave enough to share our grief and joy and ecstasy and despair with others.
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Pray: Death teaches love & how to “be”
Two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a journalist—ponder the universal questions about the meaning of life through death.
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Pray: No one is excluded from God’s love & mercy.
Inclusion, an act of mercy, is manifested in opening one’s arms wide to welcome without excluding or labeling others–Pope Francis
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Pray: Resist obstacles to love with new habits
Those on the path toward greater spiritual freedom and love find strength in a very undramatic and almost unnoticeable ways when they avoid letting egos and self-preoccupations to take over.
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