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Playing Hide and Seek with God
I've been playing hide and seek with God most of my life. Sometimes I hide from God and sometimes God hides from me. I think I've discerned a pattern: Whenever I become confident that God is found i…
Letting Troubles Go
Proverb
A kind word is like a spring day.
— Russian proverb
Meditating with Hildegard
“There is the music of Heaven in all things.”
— Hildegard of Bingen
A Word to the Wise
Spiritual Wisdom
Disease and healing are not just physiological processes. They are spiritual detonations.
— Marc Ian Barasch in The Healing Path
Receiving Ritual
Reading Joyce Rupp's book The Cup of Our Life, I was inspired to create a "receiving ritual" by this suggestion:
"Hold the empty cup in your hands.
Look at all the room the cup has for filli…
Everything in God and God in Everything
Panentheism means "everything in God and God in everything." It's not the same as pantheism, which identifies God with nature, or dualism, which emphasizes the gulf between God and creation. It stre…
Don't Ask Why
Movie Line
Why is this happening?
-- Tilley in Tin Men
"G" Is for Gratitude
"It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
— David Steindl-Rast
Say Thank You to a Tree
Here in the Midwest, mid-November is a season of rauco…
The Ultimate Superpower
by Gracie Griffin in KidSpirit's The Nature of Truth issue.
Interfaith Connections is a column for teens to dialogue about how their faith or wisdom tradition influences their view of life’s bi…
Believing in Beginnings
Prayer
O God, help me to believe in the beginnings
and in my beginnings again,
no matter how often I've failed before.
—Ted Loder in Guerrillas of Grace