Wednesday Wisdom: What Does it Mean to Hold Things in Love? Last week, I asked a rather quiet 5th grade girl to make a slight edit on her page for the class book we were making during library time about the women’s suffrage movement. When the students were working at…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Relationship is Key Last week was Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and my week at the elementary school library where I work part-time was filled with reading fun phrases like “there’s a Bofa on my Sofa,” and “A Zamp in my Lamp,” and a “Nink in my Sink,” and “A…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Living Deep Love We are created from love. We are love. And during this period of Lent, a time of deep reflection and reflection, I am noticing what separates me from love. What separates you from love and closes your heart? I was really struck in yesterday’s gospel,…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Living in Wonder & Mystery. The Christmas season is a time of wonder and mystery. It reminds us that love and compassion are being birthed in our lives and in the world around us, even in the midst of sorrow. This mystery naturally brings us to silence. What…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Faith is an Opening. “Faith is our small but necessary offering to any new change or encounter,” writes Richard Rohr in The Naked Now. I have been reflecting on this thought for the past week, as I continue to respond to the changes I am encountering in my new…
Read MoreI am immersed in reading Richard Rohr’s book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See. Richard is one of the wisdom teachers in the Living School, which I started in August. I wanted to share some of Richard’s thoughts in this book, as food for thought: Prayer is…
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