God In All Things
Summary: This podcast hopes to find God in all things, mulling over questions about God from an Ignatian perspective, reflecting on scripture, and being attentive to how God permeates the moments of our exciting and mundane life. For more, visit GodInAllThings.com.
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- Artist: Andy Otto
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Podcasts:
The gift of presence is sometimes more healing than fixing an unfixable problem. God sits with us and feels our feelings with us.
This simple daily ritual reminds us of our hallowed nature and that all we have can be used for love and service.
God's incarnation makes sacred our very decisions and even the process of discernment. Every decision we make becomes an incarnation, a little Christmas through which God enters the world.
People had to discern John the Baptist's message. Was he the messiah? What were the signs they saw? Discernment includes many signs, consolation and desolation, and movements from the spirits that prepare the way to a choice.
God illumines a light into the world through the Annunciation. Mary's yes comes in a place of freedom, hope, and not clinging. Ignatius gives us several exercises for making decisions with this kind of freedom.
Incarnation occurs all the time, even in our decisions. We are in a whirl of confusion and feel like we're in darkness. Advent is a time of sitting with those raw feelings and emotions because discernment begins with observation.
Not forgiving ourselves or others blocks our capacity to give and receive the gift of thanksgiving.
Sometimes you just need to ask God for what you desire.
The sacramentality of sending someone a hug.
Feminists often talk about "strong women". But we rarely hear about "strong men" in the same way. True courage and strength means an embrace of genuine feminism—a feminism that reveals the beauty of male and female. Perhaps we can reexamine the meaning of a "strong man" as an effort to balance out our views of men and women.
I've been trying to practice mindfulness, but a stranger seemed to do it better than I during a particular moment in church.
Buddhism and Ignatian spirituality have many fascinating parallels.
The gorgeous fall colours of the leaves are a result of their dying. It's a reminder of the beauty in the cycles of life and can remind us to take a look at our own time-limited life.
A new study finds that ritual enhances the flavour of food. In fact, it can enhance many of the moments of life.
Finding the present moment through a typewriter.