Minute Meditations
Is Your Work a Vocation?
It doesn’t take much looking in our economy to see that in fact there is a great deal of work that doesn’t pray, work that disconnects us from our sources of life rather than moves us toward wholeness. For work to pray, it must have a sense of vocation attached to it—we must feel some calling toward that work and the wholeness of which it is a part, that there is something holy in good work. Vocation is a calling and prayer is a call and response, deep calling to deep. For work to pray, to be vocation, it must be brought into a larger conversation.
Finding Rest in Humility
When we move low, back toward the soil from which we can learn the lessons of our true humanity, we are able to enter a kind of peace. Humility is not about struggle or diminishment but rather is the relief ...
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Returning to Our Roots
Humility, by helping to return us to the integrity of our humanity, which involves an acceptance of our particularly human creatureliness, also helps to make our lives more coherent, more integrated.
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The Grace of Sabbath
The practice of Sabbath also has the effect of elevating the value of labor and of the people engaged in it.
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Embracing Our Limits
The deeper my love the more particular it becomes and the more limited in scope. It is only through such particulars that we can come to save the creation.
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All the World Is Gift
When we exist in a world of gift, in which we ourselves are given, then our own labors must be gifts to those around us.
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The Mirror of Jesus
Clare’s writings often include the metaphor of a mirror. In Francis’s body she beheld a stark mirror of the Passion. She then taught the sisters how clearly they must pattern their lives on that of Jesus. He had to become ...
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