Wisdom Well

Wednesday Wisdom. How Letting Go Renews Love and Life. This past week, I celebrated my 30th anniversary. Over the years, my husband and I have shared times of deep joy and deep sorrow. We have shared in the grief of losing loved ones and in the comfort of our faith…

Wednesday Wisdom. The Season of Your Life. On Monday, I had the great joy of holding a sacred circle with a group from the School of Applied Theology here in the Bay Area. The prayer focus for our time together was to reflect upon the season of our lives. To begin our time…

Wednesday Wisdom. How Grief Can Transform Us. Now that both my parents are deceased, I feel the need to let grief transform me. The other day I was looking for something on my book shelf and came across my father’s copy of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.…

Wednesday Wisdom. Renewal Is Essential.  Last Saturday, I found myself feeling unsettled within, and I walked into my church to have a quiet moment to center myself. Fortunately, I bumped into Father Joe, a very casual and caring priest that is always friendly. We sat together, and I began expressing how overwhelmed…

Blessed are those who mourn: for they will be comforted   Sunday evening my mother died. She was elderly, and in many ways this was expected at some point soon, but the series of events in the last month were dramatic, and her death felt sudden. I pulled out some vignettes from…