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5 Ways to Make Advent More Serene and Less Stressful

5 Ways to Make Advent More Serene and Less Stressful

We're only a few days into Advent, and most of us have been bombarded by so much Christmas music and Christmas advertising and Christmas everything that we're already sick of the season. In a world where the Christmas countdown begins sometime before ...
Waiting Without Hope

Waiting Without Hope

When I was approaching my 60th birthday a couple of years ago, I decided to have two words from my favorite psalm tattooed on my left arm. “Be still,” it ...
The thing with feathers

The thing with feathers

It was a beautiful October morning, and I was seated in a jam-packed St. Peter’s Square waiting for Pope Francis to begin Mass on the Feast of the Guardian ...
Don’t shut down wonder

Don’t shut down wonder

When I initially developed the Stillpoint Retreat, which I have led at Pyramid Life Center for six years and counting, my hope was to give people a space ...

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