What Sustains Us – Aug. 9, 2021
“We know that love nourishes us. When it is in our lives, we can bear pain, confusion and even death. This is why I link the food of the spirit, love, with the food of the body, bread. Both are staples. They sustain us.” –Gunilla Norris, Becoming Bread (Hidden Spring, 2003), p. xii
Toward Wholeness – Aug. 6, 2021
“To be grateful that we are involves gratitude for what has made us as we are. Thus, gratitude and forgiveness are both essential to wholeness.” –Sam Keen, in Our Many Selves by Elizabeth O’Connor, p. 139
Say Nothing Negative – Aug. 5, 2021
“An added discipline for this week might be to say nothing negative about anyone else or about yourself. This will give you more energy for inner work on the subject [self-observation]. If you find it a difficult discipline to keep, do not be discouraged. A discipline is to help us learn, and there is often […]
Search for God – Aug. 4, 2021
“Though by and large the Church has not known how integral the search for self is to the search for God, her saints have always preached that the two are inextricably bound together. Brother Lawrence is reported to have said, “When we enter upon the spiritual life, we should consider and examine to the bottom […]