Category Archives: From My Reading…

These posts over the years reflect readings that Karen has noted are “my favorite words to live by”.

An Angel in the Rock – Elizabeth O’Connor

Posted on January 28, 2013 by livingasapprentices

“Somewhere I heard a story about Michelangelo’s pushing a huge piece of rock down a street. A curious neighbor sitting lazily on the porch of his house called to him and inquired why he labored so over an old piece of … Continue reading →

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Year-ending,Year-beginning – Quote from Elizabeth O’Connor

Posted on January 1, 2013 by livingasapprentices

Use New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day as a time of reflection on the year gone and the year to come:What took place in your home relations? Your work relations? Your church relations? What events in the larger community … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Today – Joseph Tetlow,SJ

Posted on December 7, 2012 by livingasapprentices

Oh, Lord my God, You called me from the sleep of nothingness merely because in your tremendous love you want to make good and beautiful things. You have called me by my name in my mother’s womb. You have given … Continue reading →

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Playing My Part

Posted on November 26, 2012 by livingasapprentices

“Our ordinary lives are given an extraordinary significance when we accept that our lives are about something much larger, our pain is a participation in the redemptive suffering of God, our creativity is the very passion of God for the … Continue reading →

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On Being Childlike

Posted on November 4, 2012 by livingasapprentices

From Walking on Water, Reflections on Faith and Art, by Madeleine L’Engle “Only the most mature of us are able to be childlike.  And to be able to be childlike involves memory; we must never forget any part of ourselves.  … Continue reading →

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$3 Worth of God

Posted on October 31, 2012 by livingasapprentices

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I want ecstasy, not … Continue reading →

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Nothing is Isolated

Posted on October 11, 2012 by livingasapprentices

“What seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. For the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature’s vehicle … Continue reading →

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What we must be about

Posted on October 8, 2012 by livingasapprentices

“What we in the church must be about, I am convinced, is a return to religion of passion–a way of being in which anything less than spilling over with the Spirit of God is not enough; spilling over with desire … Continue reading →

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