Wise Lessons for Graceful Living

Repost of Episode 465

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re concluding our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

Island-precepts, I might call them…. Simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life. Balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life. Work without pressure. Space for significance and beauty.  Time for solitude and sharing. Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life…

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Repost of Episode 464

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms….A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky.  A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side.  A candle flowers in the space of night.  Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space….

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Repost of Episode 463

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.  We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb.  We are afraid it will never return….One must accept the security of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

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Repost of Episode 462

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

Perhaps both men and women…may hunger…for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind, and spirit–qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.  It is growth along these lines that will make us whole….

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Repost of Episode 461

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

One tries to cure the signs of growth, to exorcise them, as if they were devils, when really they might be angels of annunciation…of a new stage in living when…one might be free to fulfill the neglected side of one’s self.  One might be free for growth of mind, heart, and talent; free at last for spiritual growth…

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Repost of Episode 460

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle.  We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth….This is only a beginning.

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Repost of Episode 459

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

This is an end toward which we could strive–to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations and activities.  Solitude alone is not the answer to this; it is only a step toward it…

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Repost of Episode 458

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

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Repost of Episode 457

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

We are aware of our hunger and needs, but still ignorant of what will satisfy them…Instead of stilling the center, the axis of the wheel, we add more centrifugal activities to our lives–which tend to throw us off balance.

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Repost of Episode 456

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

…[W]e are hungry, and not knowing what we are hungry for, we fill up the void with endless distractions, always at hand–unnecessary errands, compulsive duties, social niceties.  And for the most part, to little purpose.  Suddenly the spring is dry; the well is empty.

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