Soul Seeing - As we struggle both individually and collectively as a church to figure out synodality, might Henry David Thoreau be another voice we need to heed?
We're inundated with stories of meanness, but there's a huge reservoir of hope available to us. We just have to keep our eyes open for people doing good in small, everyday-but-still-important ways.
So often when we think of the Holy Spirit, it's as a dove. But the Holy Spirit can be wild and tempestuous, coming where and when it will, shaking us out of our complacency, asking us to look with fresh eyes.
For one U.S. priest, returning home to Vietnam was more than a visit; it was a reminder to see with the soul's eye and treasure the places we know how to love and be loved without condition.