Reflections from Our Directors
Coming Home: Preview 2
Middle years come with the feeling of being homesick. The feeling when remembering the calm while being rocked as a young child. Absorbing the beat of my father’s heart as it bumped along the dull humming of “Home on the Range”. The rush that comes when walking into...
Being a Compassionate Presence
We have a choice to look for the fundamental goodness in ourselves, and others because that goodness “changes everything”.
Coming Home – preview #1
God wants to be your guide. God planted desire in your heart before you were born and you need to refresh your memory of that desire.
Approach with Compassion and Mercy
Hidden in the recent traumatic events in our nation is a holy invitation to approach ourselves and others with compassion and mercy.
Moving Forward
Let’s start 2021 by recalibrating our intentions to our most important values that will guide our choices (big and small) in the months ahead, regardless of external events.
Love, Compassion and Empathy in 2021!
Ignatius invites us to be contemplatives in action … and within that action, to notice God in all things.
The Longest Night. Light in the Darkness.
We come to December 21 every year. The longest night. Sun setting earlier every day, even if it’s seconds it can feel like minutes. Hours earlier. Each day.
Advent Reflections
First Advent…then Christmas...followed by Epiphany...reflections from my Minnesota backyard! Indeed, sunny, beautiful Minnesota winters offer peaceful mornings for backyard reflection! My Advent meditations on this photo led me to recognize those areas of darkness and...
Christmas 2020 – Bah! Humbug! Or Merry Christmas?
My mother loved Charles Dickens. When I was in 6th grade she read to me A Tale of Two Cities. The beginning lines have stayed with me and remained relevant all my life;” It was the best of times - It was the worst of times”. When I was in 8th grade our shared...