Posted in Recovery, Spirituality on 28 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
It has been a while since I have made any reference to the wisdom of 12-step recovery programs, and I found myself reflecting on how grateful I am for how my life in community and in recovery have unfolded as one and the same. I was sharing at a meeting this morning that before I [...]
Posted in Random thoughts on 27 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
AAGGHH! Sorry to not have a more reflective post for you today… I spent most of yesterday uninstalling a program, and then downloading and trying to install a different one that I thought was a better choice for a class I teach this fall. Had lots of trouble, but stayed with it…only to discover that [...]
Posted in Anti-racism, Justice on 24 July 2007 | 7 Comments »
The past several weeks have been a time of introspection for many of us living in the metro Detroit area as we attempt to assess how far we have come since those frightening days in July, 1967. I personally had very little knowledge of what happened at the time, being only 9 years old and [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 22 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
While I was praying this morning, I was reflecting on a shift in how I’ve come to deal with compliments and praise from others. First of all, the more I grow, the less I look to others for approval…I’ve found that happiness is largely an “inside job.” But that aside, I was thinking about my [...]
Posted in Catholic, Justice on 20 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
While I was on retreat last week, apparently some recent communications from Rome hit the mainstream media here in the States. The communications came from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, our present Pope’s former office. From what I can tell, the folks there are trying to clarify the teaching of what it [...]
Posted in Catholic, Justice on 18 July 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’d like to thank one of this little “blog community,” DJC, for her idea and subsequent contribution of the post for today. And I’d like to reiterate the invitation to contact me if you are interested in contributing a post as a “guest blogger”, or even if you have an idea you’d like to see [...]
Posted in Catholic, Nun, Random thoughts on 16 July 2007 | 8 Comments »
First, a small disclaimer…this will be funnier to some than to others, probably more so to Baden CSJ’s…not really an inside joke, but they’ll relate more to this than folks who have not visited our motherhouse.
Our 1954 building has in the front, several niches between the 3rd and 4th floors that were designed for the [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 13 July 2007 | 6 Comments »
No, not a sequel to the film, “Four Weddings and a Funeral”…
I’ve been back at the motherhouse in Baden, PA for a week making my annual retreat. We’ve had an unusual number of deaths of our sisters in a short time span - so much loss, and yet, I’ve experienced a real celebration of the [...]
Posted in Random thoughts on 8 July 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a second delayed post, so you have something to read while I’m making my annual retreat. On July 3, I was back in Honolulu after my 3 days on Maui. Spent several hours exploring on bike the area near where I’ve been staying. From the CSJ Carondelet Center (about the midpoint of the route [...]
Posted in Justice, Nun, Spirituality on 6 July 2007 | No Comments »
No, not what you may be struggling to visualize…
While I was in Maui, one of the sisters I was staying with received a book from some relatives, called “Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology” by Sarah McFarland Taylor.
Here’s an excerpt from Harvard University Press’ web site:
Green sisters are environmentally active Catholic nuns who are working to [...]
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