This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection You are returning to a noisy world, a world of horn blowing and door slamming, of TV and radio, of cell phones and incessant conversation. It’s the world you left a few days ago. Reenter it cautiously. —Ben Campbell […]

This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection I glanced at the jar of muddy water; it had begun to clear up. The sediment had settled, and the water was becoming transparent. . . . Father Girard had illustrated what silence could do with the murkiness of

This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection The Rule of Saint Benedict instructs the community to live a balanced life of work, prayer, and rest. While individual growth in holiness is important, the community’s growth in holiness is paramount. —Ben Campbell Johnson and Paul H. Lang,

This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection While recognizing all the benefits of creating a plan, remember this caveat: in spite of your forethinking and clear outlining, God may take you in a very different way! The paradoxical phrase “wasting time with God” hints at [this].

This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection Before you leave for a retreat, think about your time away and get your mind around it. . . . Prepare your mind and heart for this special time consecrated to God. Preparation has three aspects: physical, relational, and

This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection Having time to deal with yourself is more important than most any other activity you could be engaged in. Yes, more important than work. More important than family. More important than finishing up a list of tasks. —Ben Campbell

This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection Retreat is not a permanent withdrawal from conflicts and the struggles of life; it is not playing the coward with your problems. Retreat is a temporary withdrawal to be renewed, to regroup, and find the strength that you need

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection No Cristain escapes the taste of wilderness on the way to the Promised Land; the wilderness confronts this generation in a very harsh and concrete form. . . . [This] helps us, in a disagreeable way, to realize our entire

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection God made us to use us, and use us in the most profitable way: for God’s purpose, not ours. To live a spiritual life means subordinating all other interests to that single fact. —Evelyn Underhill, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection It has been said that a ceaseless death to self is asked of all light-bearing souls, and this is a hundred times more true of healing souls. We must ignore our pains and preferences, our own longing for sympathy and