Day: September 5, 2021

Grief’s Sharp Edge

We forget how sharp the pain of grief is until we suffer a beloved’s death again.

Sorrow so deep we are certain we can’t sustain it and survive. We can’t breathe, or eat or sleep. Our bodies curl upon themselves, teeth clench, lungs and limbs quiver when we try to move. We can’t speak or listen or think. We sometimes feel we want to go down to the grave with our loved one.

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Tea Time Theology: Can You Retire From Service

How do you retire from being a priest and can you actually do that?
Introducing a new podcast to our lineup, Tea Time Theology is produced by the Diocese of Rhode Island that aims to create space to have real and meaningful conversations about faith

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Healing Words

Last week during our spiritual direction supervision meeting, one of my colleagues read a confession.  She talked about feeling totally listless, gray.  About how she cannot force herself to pray, how her exercise program has gone out the window and she finds herself turning on the TV too often, watching too much “news” and other empty programming.  At several points as I listened I found myself silently affirming, “I do that, too.”

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