The end of summer is always bittersweet, but this year more than usual. I had all kinds of things I was hoping to do this summer, from lunch with friends to trips to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to take photos, and did nothing, almost, thanks to my ever-present chronic migraines. I even missed the annual …
Happy Easter Monday! One of my theology professors used to refer to Christians as “Easter People”. Which we are, of course, since the death and resurrection of Christ are the founding events of our faith. But what does it mean, really…what are the implications for our everyday lives? It means that we are never without …
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the ‘Beloved’. –Henri Nouwen
The soul that is united with God sees the world with God’s eyes. That soul, like God, sees what is otherwise rendered invisible and irrelevant .–Dorothee Soelle
God’s laughter emanating from the sky LAUGHTER CAME FROM EVERY BRICK Just these two words He spoke changed my life, “Enjoy Me.” What a burden I thought I was to carry– a crucifix, as did He. Love once said to me, “I know a song, would you like to hear it?” And laughter came from …
Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having
–C.S. Lewis
The love between my husband George and his developmentally disabled brother Greg is one of the sweetest things I have ever seen. It is a love freely given, which, as C.S. Lewis points out, is the only kind worth having.
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photo credit: Loving Earth via photopin cc What would the world look like if you loved yourself unconditionally? What if you loved yourself no matter what? Regardless if you failed, succeeded, finished, stopped, chose, chose not to? What if you loved yourself despite what anyone had to say…
Courtesy of my friends over at RevGalBlogPals, here is today’s Friday Five: Friday Five: Favorites Old and New You know how sometimes you just want to have a hymn sing? Well, today is that day. Share with the group five favorite hymns or praise songs or songs that bring you close to the Spirit (that’s …
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Andrew Greeley,self-proclaimed “loud-mouthed Irish priest” On the Relationship between Religion and Imagination The imagination is religious. Religion is imaginative. The origins and the power of both are in the playful, creative, dancing self. (The Catholic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen) On the Uniqueness of the Catholic Imagination A word about the Catholic…
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