Minute Meditations
Held in Our Brokenness
Maureen O'Brien
January 8, 2022
There is a phenomenon—if there’s a scientific name, I don’t know of it—where the trees break and fall into one another’s arms. I’ve come to call these tree pietas.
The Beauty of Our Beginnings
Maureen O'Brien
January 6, 2022
Psalm 139 takes us all the way back to when we first became. It reveres the beauty of our very beginnings and returns us to the miracle of our mothers.
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Everything Connected
Maureen O'Brien
January 5, 2022
The psalms keep teaching me that to be emotionally and spiritually whole, there’s no drawing lines inside the human heart.
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Beginning Again
Maureen O'Brien
January 4, 2022
I hope we never forget to begin, again and again. To know, no matter what, that we are walking in love and beauty when we seek.
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The Many Layers of Christmas
Thomas Moore
December 29, 2021
If you take Christmas to heart and get past the anxieties in arranging for gifts and parties, you will rediscover yourself every year at this time and experience a birth in yourself, just like the one so beautifully described in ...
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The Stories of Christmas
Diane M. Houdek
December 27, 2021
Whether it’s the Christmas story in church, the family stories we tell around holiday tables and in gatherings with old friends, or the Christmas movies we watch each year, there’s something about the telling of familiar stories that holds a ...
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Always Our Children
Diane M. Houdek
December 25, 2021
We know how fragile newborn life can be. And we know that these tiny lives can still be lost, even with all the technological advances of our own century.
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