Remake Habits
By Wendy Murray Lent is time to rethink old habits and, where necessary, remake them. It is more manageable to create new habits as a means of breaking old ones. This involves penetrating that...
View ArticleHoly Time
By Wendy Murray Circumstances change but the ever-present heartbeat of God does not. The oddest thing happened to me when I was sitting under a dim light on the couch in a room of the rented house...
View ArticleVocation
Claim your vocation. Follow it. It is what you made for. From The Inner Voice of Love, by Henri Nouwen: “Rembrandt and VanGogh trusted their vocations and did not allow anyone to lead them astray....
View ArticleMystery
In the face of “unprecedented mystery” we turn to the great writers who convey clarity of vision beyond what eyes see. From George MacDonald’s classic fantasy novel, Phantastes: Fairy Land is full of...
View ArticleLet My Soul Cling to You
A prayer from Saint Augustine of Hippo from Confessions Let the ears of my heart move close to Your lips and let me listen to you, who are the Truth, so that you may tell me why tears are sweet to the...
View ArticleRead Well, and with a Notebook
By Wendy Murray I write in notebooks meaningful passages from books I read. I have volumes of these notebooks that include passages from the works of large-souled thinkers and dreamers, including...
View ArticleStill Missing: MH370
By Wendy Murray Having received no confirmation of wreckage and no other corroborating evidence that Malaysia Airlines Flt 370 crashed, it has been a week now since the Boeing 777 “vanished.” Things...
View ArticleMy Walk with the Beatles
One of my goals during this season of Lent is to work on my interior landscape, which sometimes means getting out of my head. I go to the YMCA. I take my iPod Shuffle on which I have compiled a rousing...
View ArticleAffliction shall Advance the Flight in Me ~ A Poem
The season of Lent rises to its devastating and astonishing conclusion this week. At long last, the veil of the dark night will be forever rent and those who abide in death will have a door to walk...
View ArticleThe In-between Times
By Wendy Murray On the days go, one to the next. We rise in the morning and look out the window. We check the weather. We make decisions about the day. Maybe we ask God for guidance in this, maybe we...
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