Where and how do you define success in your life?Take pause with this Ignatian Examen to notice if your value of success is from God or from your own working definition.
I believe we, the church, are in a season of grace to reimagine our existence.
“—to be given a name is an act of intimacy as powerful as any act of love.” Madeleine L’engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art. When we found out we were pregnant with our first child we immediately began scouring baby name books. Knowing we were having a boy narrowed down the process but didn’t lessen the pressure. We knew nothing about our little bundle of life to come, yet had to choose…
Making all things new The time to leave China arrived. As a person of imagery, the only picture in my spirit was darkness. A girl standing on a path unlit and shadowed. Where did the light unto my path go? Where do I go? I thought I’d be in China for years to come, but God’s holy flame that guided my calling and life began moving. Like the Israelites, who followed the cloud by day…
You. Me. As Americans when we see the word pilgrim we immediately think of the Mayflower, Plymouth Rock and Thanksgiving all in association with a group of Puritan settlers in search of religious freedom. In other religious contexts we think of pilgrimages: a journey of one person to a holy place such as Jerusalem or Mecca—a sacred trip towards the holiest of places denying oneself of luxuries to find humility, truth and a spiritual experience.…
