I am making my through an excellent source for reflection, the book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life. Author Dacher Keltner provides research-based insights into how – when we feel and experience a sense of awe – we are able to “place the stressers of life within larger contexts.” Dacher notes especially the importance of nature in promoting awe. Isn’t this the truth?!?
Today I post two additional resources, a below excerpt from a prayer at our virtual team meeting earlier this week. I also share some music I came across from my NPR Youtube feed. Enjoy and blessings and your week ahead!
On Listening to God’s Voice-
Dennis Hamm, SJ from Rummaging for God: Praying Backwards through Your Day
How do we hear the voice of God? Our Christian tradition has at least four answers to that question. First, along with the faithful of most religions, we perceive the divine in what God has made, creation itself (that insight sits at the heart of Christian moral thinking). Second, we hear God’s voice in the Scriptures, which we even call “the word of God.” Third, we hear God in the authoritative teaching of the church, the living tradition of our believing community. Finally, we hear God by attending to our experience, and interpreting it in the light of all those other ways of hearing the divine voice–the structures of creation, the Bible, the living tradition of the community.
Keeping the Faith 