Reflections from Our Directors
Wise and Discerning Choices During COVID-19
My wife Julie is in hospice nursing home care in late stages of Alzheimer’s. She tested COVID positive. We were faced with end of life choices. (Miraculously, she survived, while 18 other residents around her died). I joined thousands of others in...
2020 JUSTICE: Reading & Viewing List with Introduction
READ / VIEW PRAY SHARE “What can I do?” “I feel so helpless!” These are common thoughts of many of us who are not in essential services in the midst of three crises: COVID-19;...
Awake: Arise to Love
Awakened, Arise to Love” – Contemplating the Love of God As I continue to look for God’s consolation in these troubled times,I reflect on my experience with the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola and am drawn to review its meaning for me.When I began the...
We Are Witnesses
Our email newsletter that went out on Friday, May 29, 2020. Arise in Love As each person is awakened to the sacred in all life, the world is transformed. This week we are witnessing a deep truth of our reality whispered and shouted from the streets. From our...
Search for Meaning
The desire to find meaning in the middle of so many changes, is natural and healthy. In this short post, Dan Johnson offers a story from Ignatian spirituality and a simple prayer as a way for new meaning to be shaped. These past two months have shown just how...
Be Kind to Yourself
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between...
Practice Gratitude for the Good in your Life
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart” -French proverb You may be puzzled at the picture that introduces this article; a pile of disorganized and random pictures and boxes on top of my dining room table. This was my early response to “what am I going to do...
Honor Your Feelings
Life during a pandemic brings unexpected, unwelcome feelings. What if we were to meet those feelings at the door and graciously “welcome and entertain them all” as Rumi suggests in “The Guest House?” This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A...
Acknowledge the reality of the pandemic as well as your grief
Consider: All earthly life together is one being. “Everything that is in the heavens, and on the earth and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness” -Hildegard of Bingen, 12th century Christian mystic In her forest home, Hildegard...