Spiritual Direction
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Lael Johnson added 8d ago
Lael Johnson added 8d ago
- In your heart may there be a sanctuary
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.from Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters by Jennifer Lentfer
Lael Johnson added 9d ago
And silence is one of the great victims of modern culture. We live in an intense and visually aggressive age; everything is drawn outwards towards the sensation of the image. Because culture is becoming ever more homogenized and universalist, image has such power. With the continued netting of everything, chosen images can immediately attain univer
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Lael Johnson added 12d ago
Silence actually teaches us to listen.
from The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth by Christopher L. Heuertz
Lael Johnson added 12d ago
- “Hope is tough. It’s tougher to be uncertain than certain. It’s tougher to take chances than to be safe. And so hope is often seen as weakness, because it’s vulnerable, but it takes strength to enter into that vulnerability of being open to the possibilities.”
Lael Johnson added 12d ago
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
from Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics) by C. S. Lewis
Lael Johnson added 12d ago
To hope is to “borrow grace.” It is not naive optimism. Hope admits the truth of our vulnerability. It does not trust God to keep all bad things from happening. But it assumes that redemption, beauty, and goodness will be there for us, whatever lies ahead.
from Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison Warren
Lael Johnson added 12d ago
- As theologian Walter Brueggeman writes on rest and sabbath—it’s a “pause that transforms.” Rest— of people, of land, of resources— is always linked to flourishing, not scarcity. Practiced in times of plenty and proven in times of crisis.
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Lael Johnson added 12d ago
Too often people try to change their lives by using the will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape. The intellect identifies the goal of the programme, and the will accordingly forces the life into that shape. This way of approaching the sacredness of one’s own presence is externalist and violent. It brings you falsely outside yo
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Lael Johnson added 12d ago