by Karen Wight Hoogheem | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured Image
In this season of Thanksgiving, I am aware of how grateful I am for trees. Several years ago, a spiritual director shared a poem by Macrina Wiederkehr with me. It’s about a tree and includes the line: “Slowly she celebrated the sacrament of letting go. First she...
by Carolyn Kolovitz | Nov 17, 2021 | Featured Image
When I was a little girl, my December ritual was to sit beside the twinkling tree lights in our living room and imagine myself into the coffee table manger scene. I visualized myself with the shepherds underneath a Bethlehem sky full of angels until the angels and...
by Linda Cherek | Nov 16, 2021 | Featured Image
Thanksgiving is upon us and then Advent and Christmas will follow. This time of the year offers us an opportunity to reflect, remember and reassess many aspects of our life. We think of gratitude during Thanksgiving, all the parts of our life for which we are...
by Karen Wight Hoogheem | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured Image
A few weeks ago, my 11 year-old son tested positive for COVID. A few days later, my parents tested positive with breakthrough cases. Ever since the virus emerged in our communities, I was concerned that these three people in particular would become infected. All at...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Nov 3, 2021 | Featured Image
Ignatius of Loyola, as well as other spiritual leaders, invite spiritual seekers to seek and find the Presence of the Divine “in all things.” As the Pandemic continues into its second Autumn season, I notice how frequently I turn to the constancy, comfort and beauty...
by Lindsay McGlynn | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured Image
The other day a friend of mine offered a new way to understand patience. As he spoke of his 11-year-old son, he slowly and thoughtfully said, “Patience is a letting go.” When I think of myself at my most impatient moments, they are the times I am most wrapped up in...
