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The Joy of Questioning By Kavya Shah for KidSpirit's Interfaith Connections issue. The ability to question is a power that we all have. Sometimes I find answers to my questions, but sometimes I don’t. When I …
The Joys of Reading "Have a conversation with the author as you read. Underline passages that catch your fancy. Or, if you are reading a borrowed book or a library copy, copy favorite phrases into a notebook. Consider yo…
"J" is for Joy “See the world through the eyes of your inner child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things.” ― Henna Sohail When …
The Joy of Old Age "At 80, one can take in the long view and have a vivid, lived sense of history not possible at an earlier age," writes Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology at the N.Y.U. School of Medicine and the a…
The Joy of Byzantine Catholicism By Chris Woods in the KidSpirit Happiness Issue I was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. Shortly after I was born, my family moved and we became parishioners at a Byzantine Catholic Church …
The Languages of Love Catholic Wisdom Love and joy exist properly in God. They constitute the basis of all attraction — love is the origin and joy is the end result. — Thomas Aquinas in Sheer Joy by Matthew Fox
Sympathetic Joy as a Spiritual Gift I’ve discovered a new word and I want to share it with you. It’s called midding. Here’s the definition as found in John Koenig’s Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: midding v. intr. feeling t…
Hinduism, Buddhism, and... Money? By Vidushi Sharma in the KidSpirit Money and Value issue. Artwork by Amy Liu (This was originally posted on KidSpirit in June 2012) This June if you’d walked into the last KidSpirit Editori…
Finding Delight Jewish Wisdom Blessings keep our awareness of life's holy potential ever present. They awaken us to our own lives. . . . With each blessing uttered, we extend the boundaries of the sacred and rit…
Bringing Blessings Blessing This day may my thoughts bring blessing to all of life. —Daniel McGill in Forty Nights