looking forward to silence…

The Wunderhusband and I are attending a silent spiritual retreat this coming weekend. We’ve never done anything like this before, and I can’t wait to see where 2 concentrated days of directed, disciplined meditation, prayer, and Scripture reading take us.
Has anyone else done a silent retreat? Do you have any tips that you wish you’d [...]

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la vita e bella

Perhaps the closest thing to understanding beauty on this earth is knowing that goodness, happiness, and unending love exist alongside horrific suffering, evil, and misery.

Perhaps one’s purpose lies in discovering how to nurture and inspire the former, wherever and whoever one may be.

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he flung himself loose into the stars

“The forest floor was soft and familiar underfoot; the papery, pitchy fir cones stuck to Hugh’s bare feet as they had when he was a boy in Goshen. The dense welter of trees hid the sky completely. After a long walk, he heard the voices. Will Ruffin called to him, Vinnie called to him, [...]

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