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Art of living Well

Learning to Pay Attention

I have a theory about how we experience time. My idea is that the experience of time is relative. When you are younger, a month seems like a long time because relative to your life-span, it is a greater percentage...

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The Add/ Drop Principle

When we try to root out sin in our lives, it often leaves a vacuum. The reason is simple enough. We sin for a reason. Perhaps we are burdened with painful memories or high stress environments; whatever it may be...

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Learning to Rest in Your Calling

It was by far the greatest misconception of my youth. When I was in high school and college, I was a rather talented soccer player. I had worked hard for years to practice and hone my craft, but there was...

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Why are Catholics Afraid of Happiness?

Catholics tend to be afraid of happiness. We tend to think that somehow happiness is the enemy of holiness and doing God's will. The idea conveyed is that if you are happy and satisfied in life, then perhaps you are...

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Cultivating New Life

How we treat ourselves often informs and creates the contexts in which we relate to others. Although this is not a kind of moral absolute, I have often found that people who are hard on others tend to be hard...

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growing exquisite afternoons

a fine form, like a flower erupts below the steady discipline of sunshine the obedience of beauty paying close attention a heart that reflects requires practice skill, the steady hand of the artist that we should live this way I...

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Familiarity with God

There are two extremes with prayer, both of which can cause problems. The first is when our prayer life is based solely on routine. In this sense, everything becomes a ritual in which more spontaneous elements are seen as foreign...

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Learning to Rock the Baby

A strategy that is helpful in articulating and understanding our interior life is to use imagery and language to express what we are feeling and how it affects us. One image I like to use is that of a newborn...

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Initiation into the Mystery

Our prayer lives often begin before we understand the word prayer or are aware of a world beyond the family. In our earliest experiences, the typical child of a Catholic is initiated into a whole world of symbols, smells, sounds,...