2018
"What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world. ” ― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith On the eve of a new year I am tempted to spend my energies looking forward. But there is another voice in my head that wants me to stop and reflect on the year that has just past, to do - what the Ignatian tradition refers to as- an Examen. The Examen prayer, usually done daily or weekly, is a contemplative practices that invites you to look at the moments of your life th