Michael Leach and friends write about seeing God, the world and ourselves with the eye of the soul. Each column is a spiritual reflection on the beauty that hides behind appearances and the peace that is beyond all understanding.
The looming death of our religious communities may be the heart of sisters' fear of losing their home. Is that why some of us hang on with desperate hope of reviving the former number of vocations?
Troubling thoughts? Try Romans 12:2: "Let God transform you into a new person by letting God change the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."
Soul Seeing: God never tires of making grace known through acts of radical hospitality when strangers appear — whether along the road to Emmaus, or on a dark highway running through South Bend, Indiana.
Soul Seeing: The setting of the final chapter of Mum's life was mundane — a simply furnished bedroom in the apartment she shared with her husband of over 70 years. But something remarkable happened in that humble space.