Wise Lessons for Graceful Living

Daily Lectio Divina: The problem is how to remain whole

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Daily Lectio Divina: The problem is how to remain whole

Repost of Episode 455

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 Harmony and Balance.

[The problem] is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal forces tend to pull one off center; how to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel.

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Daily Lectio Divina: How much we need steadiness

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Daily Lectio Divina: How much we need steadiness

Repost of Episode 454

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 Harmony and Balance.

How much we need, and how arduous of attainment is that steadiness preached in all rules for holy living.  How desirable and how distant is the ideal of the contemplative, artist or saint–the inner inviolable core, the single eye.

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Daily Lectio Divina: The pattern of our lives

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Daily Lectio Divina: The pattern of our lives

Repost of Episode 453

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 Harmony and Balance.

The pattern of our lives is essentially circular.  We must be open to all points of the compass…stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider’s web to each breeze that blows…. How difficult…to achieve a balance in the midst of these contradictory tensions, and yet how necessary for the proper functioning of our lives.

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Daily Lectio Divina: I mean to lead a simple life

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Daily Lectio Divina: I mean to lead a simple life

Repost of Episode 452

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 Harmony and Balance.

I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily–like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity….This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity…It leads not to unification but to fragmentation.  It does not bring grace; it destroys the soul.

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Daily Lectio Divina: I want to live in grace

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Daily Lectio Divina: I want to live in grace

Repost of Episode 451

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re beginning 2017 with a new series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Harmony and Balance.

I want…to live “in grace” as much of the time as possible…an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated to outward harmony…a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Island-precepts

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Daily Lectio Divina: Island-precepts

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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Daily Lectio Divina: It is only framed in space that beauty blooms

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Daily Lectio Divina: It is only framed in space that beauty blooms

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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Daily Lectio Divina: The ebb and flow

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Daily Lectio Divina: The ebb and flow

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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Daily Lectio Divina: Perhaps both men and women may hunger

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Daily Lectio Divina: Perhaps both men and women may hunger

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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Daily Lectio Divina: One tries to cure the signs of growth

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Daily Lectio Divina: One tries to cure the signs of growth

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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