By Syndie Eardly Put this at the top of your 2017 resolution list: I promise to hit the reset button every morning. Hitting the reset button means starting fresh […]
Whenever you give, give from the heart! In this season of self-conscious generosity, we tend to see gifts as things, something that can be wrapped and ribboned; something tangible. Although […]
A dear friend reminds me occasionally that what she calls “nun-speak” or “sister-speak” is not clear to the average layperson. For example when we say “slide” meaning the cafeteria counter […]
I have often shared the story that on a summer day in my childhood, walking down a country road in Ohio, I experienced a moment of profound enlightenment. I did […]
Be in the moment! Ah, if only I could… but the moment doesn’t wait for me to get there, already it’s gone to the next: a new moment and here […]
Ivan came to work the garden this morning. “Your garden,” he said “should be called an Oasis of Love.” What a wonderful thought! I remember one of our guests saying […]
I was recently intrigued by a quote from Teilhard de Chardin. “Our role is no longer to merely ease suffering, bind up wounds, and feed the hungry, but through every […]
January is a “delicious” time of year to take stock of life. The New Year is a blank slate, a fresh start, a transition often from a “rocky” past year. […]
I have an earworm today. The lyric for David Haas’ “Star-Child” is playing over and over in my head. “This year, this year let the day arrive when […]
This magic moment! The celebrations of the Mexican Dia de Muertos and the western Christian All Saints and All Souls days focus us on our ancestors. We recall those we […]