Silence. What a gift it is to take time to be still, to shut up and listen, to escape the noise of Babel that surrounds us.
Silence, solitude and prayer are the monks' mainstay. It is how they hol...
We are multilayered people. If I want to address wellness I have to address the layers. Wellness itself is multilayered.
At the core, wellness, like Advent, is not something I do but something I r...
Jewels - precious stones, catching the light, scattering it back in ways that delight our eyes and heart. How the jewels sparkle in the light.
Jewels are an apt metaphor for a word fitly spoken. I...
After yesterday's rather dark post about light, it was good to find these two verses as the brief reading in today's Morning Prayers.
But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that thi...
Some days the morning light is hard to find. Or the light of noon. Or of late afternoon.
All I can do is turn on the lamp and and see what light I can find in its rays.
Holding on to hope.
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Nativity scenes, at least the ones I have come across, are uniformly peaceful. There is much truth in that. The angels sang, "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom...
Do good. Be kind. Encourage. Smile. Be Jesus to someone, today and every day.
Because my wellness begins when I drop my absorption with myself and start to focus on the wellness of the people God ...
I'm laying low today, trying to let the new meds take effect without me complicating the situation. The heavy-duty anti-inflammatory regemin does appear to be helping.
Peace is harder to find. Pea...
Cultivating wellness means making choices. There is no other way.
We did a lot of that today. I say 'we' because it involved my pilates instructor, my wife, my doctor, and myself. Together we deci...
CultivateWellness is one of the hashtags for these daily writing prompts. Be intentional about wellness - your own and that of others. Think about it from this angle and that. Do the things that m...
