I hope this finds you well and ready for the long weekend ahead.
Over the past several days, I’ve been thinking about all the changes that I am in the process of making. First, this website will be getting a new look in the next couple of weeks, and I think you’ll find it easier to navigate.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve begun a process of de-cluttering. Sometimes stressful, but more and more therapeutic as I decide what to hold on to. Wow, we collect a lot of stuff when we stay put for a long time. As I’ve moved through it all, I found just how little is really worth keeping. So, out to the trash for most of it.
Through the process, I’ve come across a number of little journal books. With the best intentions, I’ve started quite a few for particular reasons, especially trips, but then once the trip is over, into a drawer or onto a shelf it went.
I was watching a movie early this morning, still trying to recover from my last semester of doctoral studies, and there was a scene that got me thinking. The movie was about World War II, and the actors were sitting at a table drinking freshly brewed coffee. Someone asked, “what was the best cup of coffee you ever had?” Listening to the response got me thinking about my own “best” cup of coffee.
Sorry for the pause in my posts. This has been a tough semester, my final one, thank God, and I’m just finishing up on my last paper. I had the chance to get out to California for a little vacation recently, and I got to experience both the mountains and the sea, all in one quick week. Vacations always go by too fast, don’t they?
In one of my courses this semester, we’ve been asked to pray the Examen prayer of St. Ignatius for a few days, then provide a little discussion board post about our reaction to it.
Well, as many of you know, this was an easy exercise for me. I’ve been praying with the Examen on a daily basis for several years, and it’s helped me immensely on my spiritual journey. I know it can be the same for you.
I feel as if I’ve blinked and June has gone by. I don’t believe I’ve ever been as busy as I am right now, and, although a break is coming, it’s still off in the distance.
Like all things, I’ll survive, and maybe be better for it in the end. Well, let’s hope 🙂
My next door neighbor made a comment to me last week that I’ve been happily pondering ever since. She said she is always amazed that from early spring to late fall, I have something blooming in my yard. My mother would be proud, since this was a goal she always worked towards and she instilled the same desire in me.
This morning, as the sun was coming up, I took this photo of the irises growing just outside my kitchen door. They started their full bloom only yesterday, and the one at the top left is in the process of unfurling. I love this time of year!
For the last three days, I’ve been trying to find the time to get this post up. Between work, school, and keeping up with yard work, I’ve barely had two minutes. Until now.
A few days ago, I posted on the Ignatian principle of Finding God In All Things. Over the last several years, I’ve been able to successfully integrate this spiritual concept into my daily living. Well, most days…
In my Spirituality in the Workplace course this week, we’re taking a look at one of the central principles of Ignatian Spirituality, “finding God in all things.”
This principle developed out of a mystical experience Ignatius had early in his spiritual journey.
It seems like Easter is quickly becoming a distant memory, doesn’t it?
I don’t know about you, but I seem to be always trying to catch up. Maybe its work, a missed call from a friend, just paying the bills. It can be hard to focus on events of two weeks ago when I have a million things to do today.