Sorrow Taken Fully – Apr. 16, 2019
“Whenever any sorrow is taken fully to heart we learn something profound. A window opens where a door closed. The soul expands. Assumptions about ourselves are shed. We become naked to actual experience, and therefore more joined to the world.” -Gunilla Norris, Sheltered in the Heart
Moments of Knowing – Apr. 15, 2019
For Holy Week, I’ve been meditating on the loneliness of Jesus and the awkward companionship of his disciples. For reassurance and a reminder of the power in deep relationships, I’ve chosen quotes from the poet and essayist, Gunilla Norris in Sheltered in the Heart: Spiritualty in Deep Friendship (Homebound Publications, 2013). –Marjory Bankson, Editor of […]
How to Help – Apr. 12, 2019
“Instead of a road map, our experience gives us trail-blazing skills. It gives us a sense of the geology of the borderlands: where springs are likely to be found, where gentle slopes may give way to dangerous cliffs, which passes may offer a thoroughfare and which are likely to be dead ends. The errors and […]
Already Equipped – Apr. 11, 2019
“In what ways are you, in the life you now lead, a gift to others?… It is not uncommon to find that you are already exercising gifts that serve others in a priestly way and are in fact central to your priestly calling. God is able to work through and with us even when we […]