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In her book The Writing Life Annie Dillard offers the profound insight that how we choose to spend an hour in our life is how we choose to spend our lives. She writes this: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that…

Robert Frost once wrote these words: “He says the best way out is always throughAnd I agree to that, or in so farAs I can see no way out but through.” We all face challenges we want to set aside or solve quickly. But often the only way out of such situations is to go…

The great naturalist and author John Muir once observed that, “Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.” Most of us want life to be predictable and…

We are often rattled by the mistakes that occur in our lives. The ones others make that affect us, or the ones we make. Because no one likes when plans go awry. No one enjoys when there is a mess to clean up at work or in our homes. When something doesn’t work out and…

John Patrick Shanley is an Academy-award winning screenwriter and in the preface to his play Doubt, he observes how there is an “age-old practice of the wise: Doubt.” What does he mean? As Shanley explains, “The beginning of change is the moment of Doubt… Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because…

Brother David Steindl-Rast in his book Deeper Than Words makes a fascinating link between meaning and belonging. He observes how meaning draws from and can be defined by that which we chose to belong. In other words, if we are seeking to discover and to interpret meaning in our lives, it helps to pause and…