This summer has offered many things to my heart: renewal, restoration, healing, and an invitation into a wide and wild imagination. I look forward to sharing some of those stories here in the coming weeks.
For now, just an image which are speaking to me in these August days of presence to the gifts in this moment now. I find myself in late summer longing for the cool crisp days of autumn, but I call myself back, remembering that this season has its own grace.
Christine was featured in an interview with AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast on the intersection of creativity and monastic spirituality. In addition to being a Benedictine Oblate, Christine is Jesuit educated, with degrees from Fordham and Santa Clara Universities, and has written a library of books
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Krissy Kludt’s reflection and poem Of Dust and Water. Several years ago, I texted my father from a snowbound house in Tahoe,
Note: Click cc to turn closed captions on or off.On the Spring Equinox*God of balance,we ask your blessing at this thresholdwhen light and dark are equal.Teach us to welcome bothinto our lives, to make room for joy and sorrow,for sunlight’s shimmering and moonlight’s radiance.As the