Minute Meditations
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 that we are not God, that we are mere creatures. Wendell Berry gives voice to this truth in one of his most popular poems, “The Peace of Wild Things”:
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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Living in Community
Clare's “peace surpassing understanding” drew them daily into her orbit of sisterly solidarity.
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