From the category archives:

Nurturing the Interior Life (July)

Hope Is an Art

by Vinita on July 27, 2009

True art requires inspiration, vision, practice, imagination, and patience. Something inspires the idea, which leads to a vision of what the painting or story will become. The artist works at the vision, practicing her craft on good days and bad. She allows her imagination to take hold of the vision and keep her process vibrant. [...]

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Devotion in More Ways than One

by Vinita on July 21, 2009

If you grew up in a religious household, you came to adulthood with certain ideas about what it means to be devoted. A devoted person prays regularly, or goes to Mass/church regularly, or does good works in the community, or fasts during Lent, and so on.
Any Christian group will have its accepted modes of devotion. [...]

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