We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. MARCEL PROUST
The resources I've been slowly reading The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski, a book that looks at what death can teach us about living fully, and this week I blazed through Harriet Lerner's the Dance of Intimacy, a book that looks at how to change patterns of relating that keep us stuck in a dance … Continue reading On the way to intimacy
Photo by Dušan Smetana on Unsplash The Resources A lectio on lockdown The lockdown here in New Zealand has forced most of us - except essential workers - to move to a different rhythm and at a different pace from our usual (whatever that may have been). We have been limited to a bubble of relationships and pushed … Continue reading Silence and the art of discerning
All in a day's work... One of the things I've noticed as I've been pondering what direction we might explore in this coming term is that it is hard to let go of the desire for a tangible goal, or a clear path with encouraging milemarkers that let you know you are a) still heading … Continue reading The quotidian pilgrimage
After all this talk of blessedness it is a bit late, perhaps, to consider what it means to be blessed - to be blessed by God and to bless each other - but since we will not be seeing each other for a while over the school holidays, I thought perhaps it might be good … Continue reading Blessed, blessing, bless you
an unusual book club 