Could it be that this was what God was asking of me: to take stock in the simple, abundant gifts all around me, delight in them like a child and find myself delighting in the Holy One right in front of me?
My 82-year-old spiritual director, Sr. Connie Kramer, had an inoperable brain tumor in the shape of a butterfly. Her spiritual guidance was present until the end. Grief calls us to not fear death, but to befriend it.
Soul Seeing: As we move through Advent and Christmas, pressed into the external realm of shopping, preparations and parties, it would benefit us to look around and learn from the elders in our communities.
Soul Seeing: "What does it mean to always hear these prayers as if they had never been heard before? Forgetfulness seems a diminishment, a decline, yet here it is a grace," writes Art Blumberg.
