by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/26/2009
Read the story “Sacred Scars” mentioned in the video here. We may not be particularly happy in admitting this, but we do a lot of living while we heal. We’d like to think that it’s all about recovering health and getting on with our real life, but probably the real-est life we experience happens during [...]
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by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/20/2009
Read the story “A Course in Midwifery” mentioned in the video here. Several years ago my husband and I spent a week in Jamaica so he could shoot photos. We were on a tight budget but managed some sightseeing between the hours of scouting and picture-taking. We visited a huge, gradual waterfall, one people were [...]
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by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/15/2009
Read the story “Stripes” mentioned in the video here. Have you ever seen something that you could not identify as anything familiar, and so all you could do was stare at it in a rather stupid way? When I was a teenager I once saw an apparition while walking at night on a country [...]
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by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/12/2009
Watch this video of my introduction to this reflection. I’ve had the good fortune to do some traveling. As a young adult I taught in the Middle East and visited twelve different countries in three years’ time. During more recent decades, my husband and I have managed trips around the U.S., to Mexico, Jamaica, and [...]
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by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/06/2009
One of my favorite opening lines of a book is this one, from Compass Points, by Loyola author Margaret Silf: “God has escaped from the sanctuary.” Is that a spectacular announcement, or what? Or, can you imagine how your soul would feel if the statement were the opposite of that, such as: “God exists only [...]
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