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My Safe Harbor
by Celie Johnson for Kidspirit's Numbers & Symbols Issue.
The world is irrelevant. All focus is on one thing: the present; every aspect and every physical thing, feeling, or emotion that creates …
Love the Moment
Artistic Wisdom
Love the moment, and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
— Sister Mary Corita Kent, American pop artist
Song Lines
Storms never last do they baby
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Moments of Happiness
Mystic Wisdom
It only takes a moment for God to enrich you.
— Thomas Keating in Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
Heat & Practice & Pandemic News
This summer many parts of the United States and elsewhere around the world have been dealing with unusual heat because of the weather and a different kind of heat generated by families living and wo…
Let Us Drink a Cup of Tea
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle …
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
A Prayer in Awe of Mamoudou Gassama's Spontaneous Courage
What we do in emergency situations speaks volumes about who we are, as 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama's courage and quick reflexes show. Upon seeing a child dangling from a fifth-storey Paris apartmen…
50 Years of the Same Street
In our book Spiritual Literacy, we recounted a scene from the movie Smoke. Auggie owns a cigar store in Brooklyn and every morning at 8 a.m., he takes a photograph of his special place on Earth from…
"B" is for Being Present
“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you’re worrying about whether you’re hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that…