Last year, I composed a poetic pondering about our human experience of faith. That blog post as well received, so I’m trying another poetic pondering with a look toward our personal faith engagement. (Note: I took the photo above at the centuries-old Clonmacnoise monastic ruins in Western Ireland.)
Monasteries of the Spirit
Monasteries of the Spirit are:
- Grace-filled spaces, a place of rest and nourishment
- Environments where we can encounter God’s love
Monasteries of the Spirit are also a space of last year’s poetic ponderings:
- We move – seemingly unaware of the mechanics our own locomotion – through journeys of the soul prompted by the Holy Spirit
- We sing with joy and weightlessness toward the upper mountain heights of God’s love
- We wonder when happening upon liminal places
How do we be seek out Monasteries of the Spirit? Through an engaged faith journey:
- Regular engaged participation in one’s faith tradition.
- An active prayer life with attentiveness to – and surrender to – promptings of the Holy Spirit. These promptings nudge us toward an inner relationship with God through prayer.
May your faith journey be wonder-filled.
Kim Burkhardt blogs at A Parish Catechist (and is a member of the Association of Catholic Publishers). Blogging is sustainable via blog readership (i.e. readers/subscribers). If you are a new visitor, it would be great to have you subscribe to follow this blog (thank you!). If you know someone who would like this blog, please share it with them and invite them to subscribe (thank you!).
