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 Susanna Bertelsen | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Image
Ignatian Spirituality, as experienced in the Spiritual Exercises, informs me that repetition of previous readings can offer fresh insight to current everyday situations. Today, as I reflect on the 20th anniversary of the events on September 11, 2001, I revisited my...
by Susanna Bertelsen | May 25, 2021 | Featured Image
In the middle of the season of spring, the month of May “bursts” in, inviting renewed energy, warm sun, cleansing rains, greening of trees and colorful blossoms. Natural movements in nature, carry us from the cold of winter to the warm sprouts of spring, awaking...
by Linda Cherek | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hope is an interesting concept. We use it nearly everyday, “I hope things will work out”, “hope you get well”, hope we make it there on time”, hope we have enough money in the bank”, “hope we sell our house quickly”, “hope I get my vaccine soon”, “I hope my...
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...