Oct 18, 2022 | Writings for the Journey
When we plan our lives with certain goals in mind, we find that things often do not goour way. There are going to be losses. These could be a change in our health or thehealth of the people that we have counted on, or there could be changes in situationsin “our world”...
Oct 11, 2022 | Writings for the Journey
Yes, all religions have compassion as an attribute of God and of God’s desire for we humansto live compassionate lives. But we live in a world dominated by competition and to be overand against the other. This may come from a lack of having received compassion in...
Sep 27, 2022 | Writings for the Journey
What is holding us back from being our true selves? Could it be the pressures that we feelfrom the culture that is so much a part of our lives? In the American mystique we have thenotion of the “self-made man or woman” when in reality no one is an island unto...
Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized, Writings for the Journey
We look at the life of Queen Elizabeth. We admire her seventy years of service. We can askas we live from year to year, what will be our legacy? Will it be our actions, the positions wehave held, the people we have known? The list could go on. Or rather, will it...
Sep 10, 2022 | Writings for the Journey
Where does the imagination fit into the spiritual life? Ignatius of Loyola in his spiritualexercises uses the imagination to reenact events in the story of Jesus such as his birth andasks you to imagine yourself being present in that event. For example, you are a...
Aug 30, 2022 | Writings for the Journey
When I understood the theory of projections, it was like a new light shown on the shadow side of life. The things or persons that I had antipathy for were the very things or character traits that I had not recognized myself. Examples would be: not wanting...
