A Love Mission
As a spiritual director who has been trained to sit and listen to individuals share the inner most part of themselves and also as someone who has been in church my entire life, I hear what Burns is saying. I’ve noticed in others and also in myself a real sense of burnout. It is like we are on a hamster wheel of “more.”
Make Room for the Holy: Cultivating Spiritual Practices
Plants need water, specific sunlight, and the right type of soil and container. Some require specific pruning, and maybe even extra nutrients, while others are hearty. Regardless of type, plants exhibit healthy leaves when treated with care. Plants need tending.
The same is true of our spiritual life.
Thy Perfect Light
We are in the middle of that strange week – the last week of the year. That odd bit of time sandwiched in between Christmas and New Year’s. Many of us have celebrated with meals, worship services, presents, maybe a few “Christmases” where we gather with one side of the family and then the next. We are full, maybe a little “hungover” from the surge of delight, excitement and expectancy that leads up to the holidays and Christmas.