A STEM tutor enters the space and prepares to receive three students this afternoon, working their way towards the SAT.
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Seeing light coming from the other room, Scrooge peeks inside to find that sure enough, the next ghost has paid his visit.
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This post originally was published on the My Spiritual Journey blog. Glenna is a friend of the Missional Wisdom Foundation who lives and writes in Dallas, Texas.
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Charles Dickens’s response to widespread apathy for the plight of the poor was to write A Christmas Carol. We owe the humanitarian spirit of the Christmas season to this work.
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“This is what I really need to know: is there a place for me in Christianity?” She was sitting in my office at The Foundry House intentional community, wearing rainbow unicorn onesie pajamas with a “My pronouns are she/her” enamel pin attached.
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There is something coming.
Quick, before it is too late, listen.
Do you hear the sound of the oboe? Do you hear the tuning of the violins? Do you hear the rustle of the music on the stand?
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Jang-Mi Min was a person of private passion. Reserved to most, she was said by those closest to her to have an electric current of desire, for a few things, pulsing through her.
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He wiped the tears from His eyes, sighed a bit too heavily, and knocked the dust off of His sandals.
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Over the past month, as I have walked across Spain on the Camino Francais, I have had a fun friend who has journeyed with me, Hootie the Hoot-Owl.
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People have been doing this for centuries, even before Christianity. They walk for all sorts of reasons: to heal, to nurture health, some government jobs in Spain even require you to have walked the Camino and earned your Compostela.
Most Tanzanians are peaceful, but Marwa’s tribe thought machetes were meant to be used for more than cutting up firewood. They were great for keeping your women in line too.
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Day 10: The temperature is just a few degrees above freezing and it rains on and off throughout the day. Sore leg muscles and blisters make this day’s walk more difficult but step by solitary step I progress.
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“Let’s go out for dinner tomorrow!” said a friend. With a lot of inward hesitation and so many internal thoughts, I shyly say, “Yes!”
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We stopped for the night at a place that is built on a river; it used to be a mill so all the outdoor tables and front porch are made of mill stones.
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“The Camino comes for us all.”
I keep hearing these words when someone encounters injury; loses something; breaks a tooth; experiences delay, misfortune, or discouragement.
Our first walking day was rife with opportunity to deviate from the designated path. After a first village, we approached an opportunity, a decision, a choice.
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It was Passover Week. The final bread was reduced to crumbs beneath the table. The linen was smudged and damp from the washing of feet.
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We are staying in León at a hotel (in an active Augustinian monastery) in the historic medieval section of the city inside Roman walls. There is a medieval festival going on right outside our monastery walls.
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Crossroads
It often feels as though I am on a diving board
Up above the clouds
Teetering on the edge
One foot on the board
And the other foot off
On September 19th, Anam Cara, Missional Wisdom’s missional spiritual direction program, started its second year of training spiritual directors.
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