Earned Joy – Jan. 2, 2020
“There is earned joy: an impossible job tackled and conquered, leaving no energy for assessing the price or measuring the cost, only for an all-inclusive sense of well-being in the mind, and slowly creeping through all the crevices of the spirt—or it may be some dread has reared its head, gathering into itself all hope […]
Suppressing the Spirit – Nov. 18, 2019
This week, daily quotations for your reflection are from Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (New York: Crossroad, 1989). “After twenty-five years of priesthood, I found myself praying poorly, living somewhat isolated from other people, and very much pre-occupied with burning issues. Everyone was saying that I was doing really […]
Separate No More – Oct. 14, 2019
The quotes this week come from Living in the Presence: Spiritual Exercises to Open Our Lives to the Awareness of God. Author Tilden Edwards, along with the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation he founded, have greatly nurtured me in contemplative living and leadership – opening into life in the Spirit, trusting in God’s abiding presence, […]
Wilderness as Necessity – Aug. 29, 2019
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.” –Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire