Archives of #spiritual formation

Dreading Lent in an Election Year, a morning meditation.

“Within the light there is darkness, but do not be attached to this darkness. Within the darkness there is light, but do not look for that light.”* Before there is any Light that I can see while it is still night with me, already you are my heart’s Yes responding to your Presence, more […]...

An Advent Prayer of Consent

Mary said, “Let it be with me according to your word.” In her story—as much as we have of it, legend or tradition, myth or conjecture, hopefully holy spiritual imagination— Mary consented to a God initiated, Gabriel-as-emissary-presented God Proposal. She was wary. She wondered. Perplexed, perhaps she waivered as Gabriel kept angel-xplaining finally getting to […]...