Believing – Jan. 24, 2023
“You must mightily believe that beneath the noise is a call to a deeper life that only you can respond to in the unique ways that your gifts allow and your life path has led you.” –John P. Schuster, Answering Your Call, p. 43
Centering Down – July 19, 2021
How good it is to center down!To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by!The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic;Our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences,While something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull. …As we listen, floating up through all of the jangling echoes […]
Silence as Practice – Oct. 22, 2020
“Our culture is so fearful of the silence of death that it worships nonstop noise—perhaps as a secular sign of “eternal life”! In the midst of all that noise, small silences can help us become more comfortable with the Great Silence toward which we are all headed. Small silences bring us “little deaths,” which, to […]
In the Presence – July 24, 2019
“The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.” -Brother Lawrence, […]
