by Barbara Leonard | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Image
Spirituality comes to the fore in our middle years. Who am I now? Who is God now? Has my image of God changed? If we look at the lives of the saints (some of them may be the people in your life) we notice their struggles too. Both Francis of...
by Carolyn Kolovitz | Jan 8, 2021 | Featured Image
Guess what my goals for 2020 were? Attend more live performances, preferably monthly – oh, the hilarity of the universe! – and lead overnight retreats in a beautiful new setting. Ah well. The truth is that even in a typical year, most New Year’s...
by Linda Cherek | Dec 22, 2020 | Featured Image
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the...
by Karen Treat | Dec 17, 2020 | Featured Image
I have found this month a new spiritual practice. Walking my neighborhood at 4:30 pm. I know this is a luxury to be able to walk in a safe neighborhood with my dog, husband and college student. I am grateful. I also have had walking as part of...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Dec 16, 2020 | Featured Image
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...
by Kay Vander Vort | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured Image
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...
