You’re undergoing treatment for a serious disease like cancer. What do you hope for? You lost your financial security. Is there reason to hope? Family members died in an auto accident. Can there possibly be hope? Today, want to consider what it means to hope, to live with hope. Some… Read More »Things Don’t Look Good. Is My Home False Hope?
When I was a child, I would bring home a small cardboard “piggy bank” from church each year at the beginning of Lent. The children at my church were told to place coins in the bank and fill it up and bring it back to church at Easter. This was… Read More »Lent: Giving for the Life of the World
What does “being spiritual” mean? Or leading a spiritual life? Some people think that doing spiritual practices makes them spiritual. But couldn’t that be just going through the motions? In today’s video, I’m offering a perspective on how to understand spirituality in your life, how to identify the spiritual dimension… Read More »Is Your Life Spiritual? How Do You Know?
Beauty: it’s in the eye of the beholder. At least according to the adage. Beauty inspires us, draws us out of our preoccupations, and invites us to experience wonder at life. We find beauty in nature, art, music and many other things around us. Beauty is deeply connected to spirituality… Read More »How to Experience (Your) Beauty
Spirituality and spiritual growth can be confusing to people. Just like we grow in other aspects of our lives, we have the potential to also grow spirituality. Like growth in other dimensions of our lives, spiritual growth requires a certain kind of balance and nourishment. To help explain what’s helpful… Read More »Four Point Plan for Spiritual Growth
Spiritual Direction: it’s an odd and confusing term. It sounds like someone is telling you what to do. Some people prefer “spiritual companion,” but that’s also confusing. That sounds like a casual friend or a “plus one” for an event. Whatever term is used, spiritual direction is an ancient practice… Read More »Making Sense of Spiritual Direction
We’re told to set goals for ourselves, to dream big, and strive to achieve those goals. While I don’t question that advice, per se, my experience is that day-to-day my life isn’t about achieving big goals. Instead, I find that each day I’m taking a few steps, sometimes I’m not… Read More »Hiking Trails, Achieving Goals, and Spiritual Practice
Coming of age in the Vietnam War Era, I learned slogans like, “Give peace a chance.” Fifty years later, we’ve not given peace a chance. Instead, the world remains conflicted by violence. Because of political divisions, people are less civil toward each other than they were before. With the pandemic,… Read More »Peace in a Violent World
