Soul Seeing

Michael Leach and friends write about seeing God, the world and ourselves with the eye of the soul. Each column is a spiritual reflection on the beauty that hides behind appearances and the peace that is beyond all understanding.

Wade in the water, wait in Juárez

by Pauline Hovey

May 26, 2020

Soul Seeing: Wait in Mexico? They have been waiting. Especially the Guatemalans, the Hondurans, the Salvadorans. Waiting for justice and safety that do not exist. Waiting for hope that may never materialize.

Coronavirus: When a metaphor is more than a metaphor

by Michael Leach

May 12, 2020

Soul Seeing: At a time when we thought the idea of Oneness was rising in consciousness, the original sin of thinking we're better off apart from God and each other is crying for dominion, an idea that brings only decay and death in its wake.

Seeking wisdom from masters of social isolation

by Robert Ellsberg

Apr 28, 2020

Soul Seeing: So many saints and spiritual mentors elected solitude, or had it imposed by circumstances. What kind of wisdom, I wondered, might they impart to "ordinary" people entering into this unfamiliar world?

'Open the windows of your soul'

by Richard Hendrick

Apr 14, 2020

Soul Seeing: "Open the windows of your soul/And though you may not be able/to touch across the empty square,/Sing," writes Br. Richard Hendrick in a poem about the coronavirus pandemic.

Columns ›

Wade in the water, wait in Juárez

Coronavirus: When a metaphor is more than a metaphor

Seeking wisdom from masters of social isolation

'Open the windows of your soul'

Having the time of my life

The joy of turtles

Tend to what repulses you

I found God in the pain of my brother's suicide

The gift of staring at your shoes

Christ has no body on earth but yours

The gift of five No. 1 steel knitting needles

Let it snow, let it snow, let me see

The materialism of Santa Claus and the spirituality of Baby Jesus

I believe in love even when I do not feel it

Hope for creation never runs dry

Lazarus at our gate

God calls us to show up, be present

St. Francis, as well as a cat, helped me understand the souls of animals

Stopping to smell the flowers in East Africa

A voice from the past: 'That talk in your office changed my life'

St. Bernadette's rib opened something

Reflective writing's call is to pay attention, to be awake and aware

I'm breathing my way past the 'prison' of the internet

How do you get Mother Teresa to stop praying?

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