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October 2015

October 10, 2015

Spiritual Life is About Traditions

Where I live, which is not a particularly traditional place, we are driving ourselves into...

October 03, 2015

Healthy Spiritual Life

There are people who think spiritual life is about being passionately engaged. The more strongly...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

Spiritual Life is About Freedom

There are people who think spiritual life is about holding on as tight as possible....

September 19, 2015

Spiritual Life is Not About Doing More

Each of us wishes we could do more. We see images of natural disasters or...

September 05, 2015

Spiritual Life is About Forgiveness

People desire forgiveness. Whether we realize it or not, something deep in us hungers to be forgiven....

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Spiritual Life Feeds Our Sense of Wonder

We believe in being objective, rational, analytical. We believe in being effective, efficient, practical, professional....

August 22, 2015

Spiritual Life is Woven into Every Moment

Many of us approach spiritual life as if it were an option, something we can choose...

August 15, 2015

Fantasy Spiritual Life

We are living in a fantasy world. Our lives are far beyond the greatest fantasies...

August 08, 2015

Spiritual Life Stretches Us

There are times when spiritual life urges us beyond where we are comfortable. Spiritual life...

August 01, 2015

Spiritual Life Practices

We do not build disciplines and practices to earn spiritual life. It is not as if we...

July 2015

July 25, 2015

Spiritual Life is Not About Winning

It is easy for us to get confused about spiritual life and winning. We live in...

July 18, 2015

Spiritual Life is Not Summer Vacation

There are times when we begin to think that spiritual life is like summer vacation....

July 11, 2015

Spiritual Life is Full of Surprises

Some of us love surprises. A thrill runs through us when we discover something we did not...

July 04, 2015

Spiritual Life is Fed in Reflection

Our lives do not include room for reflection. We do not have time to pay attention....

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Spiritual Life Looks Truth in the Eye and Does Not Blink

There are people who think spiritual life is a way to run away from the...

June 20, 2015

Spiritual Life is About Not Knowing

We like to think spiritual life grows deeper as we learn and gain experience. We...

June 13, 2015

Spiritual Life is Not About Being Right

For as long as I can remember I have been told being right is better...

June 06, 2015

Spiritual Life is an Unquenchable Fire

Spiritual life is a fire burning within us and in the world around us. It...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Spiritual Life is Always More

Spiritual life is more than we expect, more than we imagine, more than we need,...

May 23, 2015

Spiritual Life Remembers

It can be difficult for us to remember. We fill our lives with distraction. We have...

May 16, 2015

Spiritual Life Lives Beneath the Surface

We do not grasp spiritual life at first sight. We cannot take spiritual life in...

May 09, 2015

Spiritual Life is Not About Following Rules

There are people who believe in following the rules. They are convinced each rule is there...

May 02, 2015

Spiritual Life Fills Everything

Every moment, every thought, every memory is full of life. Each one could change everything. We...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Spiritual Life is About Listening

Listening is an essential quality of spiritual life. There have been times when I thought...

April 18, 2015

Spiritual Life Can Be a Real Pain

I know people who seem to give the impression spiritual life is nothing but blissful comfort...

April 11, 2015

Spiritual Life is Beyond Words

It is a challenge to put spiritual life into words. Words do not seem to fit deep...

April 04, 2015

What Happens Now?

I belong to a liturgical church. We divide our years into liturgical seasons. One of...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

Sparking the Fire of Spiritual Life

We all have times when spiritual life feels far from us. The fire within us has apparently...

March 21, 2015

Spiritual Life is Like Falling in Love

It is challenging to plan falling in love. Love, like any relationship, does not follow measurable...

March 14, 2015

Spiritual Life Online

I know people who give up the Internet for Lent. People disappear from social media,...