This week’s featured book: Heart Whispers by Elizabeth J. Canham   Today’s Reflection The monastic community recognizes everything as gift and therefore worthy of respect; members of the community are welcome guests in God’s world, not owners who exploit it. . . No one owns anything privately; all is on temporary loans. —Elizabeth J. Canham,

This week’s featured book: Heart Whispers by Elizabeth J. Canham   Today’s Reflection God is Mystery, inviting me in these sacred pages to take off my shoes and stand silent on this holy ground. God is always beyond my imagining while remaining inexplicably present, infusing me with hunger for the word that gives life. —Elizabeth

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The more you depart from yourself, the more you will be able to enter into [God]. As the giving up of exterior things brings interior peace, so the forsaking of self unites you to God. —Thomas À Kempis, edited

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection How extremely necessary to me, O Lord, your grace is to begin any good deed, to carry it on and bring it to completion! For without grace I can do nothing, but with its strength I can do all

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection You must put on the new person. You must be changed into another person. You must often do things you do not wish to do and give up those you do wish to do. —Thomas À Kempis, edited by

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection But those who are wise and whose spirits are well instructed stand superior to these changes. The whole intention of their minds is directed toward their proper and desired end. So they can stand undivided, unchanged, and unshaken. —Thomas

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Direct your every intention toward pleasing [God] alone, and desire nothing outside of pleasing [God]. Do not be rash in judging the deeds of others, and do not entangle yourself in affairs that are not your own. —Thomas À

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection We are raised up from the earth by two things—simplicity and purity. There must be simplicity in our intention and purity in our desires. Simplicity leads to God, purity embraces and enjoys God. —Thomas À Kempis, edited by Keith

This week’s featured book: Writings of Thomas à Kempis by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Yet temptations, though troublesome and severe, are often useful to us, for in them we are humbled, purified, and instructed. The saints all passed through many temptations and trials and profited by them. —Thomas À Kempis, edited by Keith