March 8, 2024 “It’s the small habits. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you read and what you watch. Who you share your energy with. Who has access to you. That will change your life.” Michale Tong/Contemplative Monk This quotation comes from a Facebook site called “Contemplative Monk” which IContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Twenty-four: Michale Tong”
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Lenten Day Twenty-three: Simone Weil
March 7, 2024 “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil On this twenty-second day of Lent, I sit with this quotation and reflect on why it spoke to me so much that I copied it down on a notecard. I mentioned who Simone Weil was in a previous blog. (https://spirit-reflections.org/2024/02/27/lenten-day-fourteen-simone-weil/) AnContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Twenty-three: Simone Weil”
Lenten Day Twenty-two: Brené Brown
March 6, 2024 “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” Brené Brown If you aren’t familiar with Brené Brown, take a look at her website where she describes herself as a “researcher, storyteller, and (currently enraged) Texan who’s spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability,ContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Twenty-two: Brené Brown”
Lenten Day Twenty-one: The Apostle Paul
March 5, 2024 “If I speak in the tongues of people or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” The Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 1) As I reflect on this quotation today, I think of this morning’s headlines. Wars across the world. Clang, clang, clang. PoliticsContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Twenty-one: The Apostle Paul”
Lenten Day Twenty: Jesus of Nazareth
March 4, 2024 “Take up your cross and follow me.” Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 16:24 On this twentieth day of Lent, halfway through the Lenten season, this invitation from Jesus to his followers feels appropriate. I admit, though, that this quotation is not in my collection or stuck on anything anywhere in my house. ItContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Twenty: Jesus of Nazareth”
Third Lenten Sunday: Wendell Berry
March 3, 2024 Because Sundays are excluded from counting the Lenten days(even though I count them for this blog series so I can keep up with where I am), I offer this Sabbath poem by Wendell Berry and his reminder that “What we need is here.” Sabbath blessings ~ Rosemary The Wild Geese Horseback onContinueContinue reading “Third Lenten Sunday: Wendell Berry”
Lenten Day Eighteen: Betsie ten Boom
March 2, 2024 “There is no pit so deep that God is not deeper still.” Betsie ten Boom This quotation by Betsie ten Boom may be the most meaningful of all my collection though I don’t have it written on a notecard. Instead, it is inscribed in my memory and heart. Betsie, sister of theContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Eighteen: Betsie ten Boom”
Lenten Day Seventeen: Lectio 365 and Poem
March 1, 2024 “The desire to be like someone else is an impossible task, and not from God.” From the prayer app, Lectio 365. Lectio 365 is one of two prayer apps that I use and recommend to others. The other is Pray as You Go. Both apps come out of Great Britain, so theContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Seventeen: Lectio 365 and Poem”
Lenten Day Sixteen: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
February 29, 2024 “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin One might be tempted to think of someone as an overachiever if he had been a Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher and teacher. Such were the roles of French priestContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Sixteen: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”
Lenten Day Fifteen: Persian Proverb
February 28, 2024 “This too shall pass.” Persian proverb On this 15th day of Lent, I remember my mother. Whenever I found myself in moments of illness, disappointment, frustration, discomfort, or worry, she would say, “This too shall pass.” I don’t think she ever said, “I’m sorry, that must be tough,” or even, “Get overContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Fifteen: Persian Proverb”
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