the spiritual practice that accesses and seeks to understand what God is trying to say

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird The premise of this book is that God is always speaking to us – individually and as the people of God – at different times and in many ways: through dreams and visions, prophets and messengers, […]

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Carved in Stone?

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD When I was a young researcher, just starting out, something happened that changed my life. I was obsessed with understanding how people cope with failures, and I decided to study it by watching how students grapple with hard problems. So I brought children

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Our Hearts

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke God is mostly concerned with one aspect of us: our hearts. He wants them to be in tip-top shape. He wants them strong, responsive, and enthusiastic, even if he has to wait until we are eighty

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The Two Halves of Life

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks thuman life. The first task is to build a strong “container” or identity, the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to

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