For Christians, the four weeks leading up to Christmas are known as Advent. It is considered a time of waiting in sweet anticipation for the birth of Christ. And as Pope Francis reminds us, it is a time to clear ourselves of the angst that arises when we lose faith, especially during times of great change on our planet like we’re experiencing now.
This Week’s Quotation: The sovereign soul who lives self-governed and at peace is centered in himself, taking alike pleasure and pain, heat, cold, glory, and shame. He is the Faithful and Illumined One, glad with joy of light and truth, dwelling safely in the Central
This Week’s Quotation: Every day, think as you wake up: Today, I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself,
This Week’s Quotation: When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending. When you plant lettuce, if it does not
This Week’s Quotation: Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Love is a Verb What is love if not expressed as continual action, continual choice, and continual devotion? For example, to rejoice is to express love. Additionally, an
This Week’s Quotation: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace. If I need a word to help me, You will give it to me. If I need a
This Week’s Quotation: We have inherited the garden: we must not leave a desert to our children. ~ Pope Francis Changing Our Inner Climate Pope Francis spoke these words in advance of the 2021 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, recognizing the existential threat
This Week’s Quotation: We are at a time when old systems and ideas are being questioned and falling apart, and there is a great opportunity for something fresh to emerge. I have no idea what that will look like and no preconceptions about how things
This Week’s Quotation: Be still and know that I Am God. Psalms 46:10 Be Still Being still does not comes easily to me. Maybe you can relate. I suppose that’s because stillness creates a vacuum that the mind wants to fill. In response to that,
This Week’s Quotation: Let me be embraced by the love by which the whole of creation is moved. The very essence with which all things are held together, dependent yet independent, whole yet individuated. In which all are my relatives. ~ Native American Prayer Embraced
This Week’s Quotation: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Peace is a Positive State These words, spoken by
This Week’s Quotation: Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe