Tag: everyday spirituality

Avoidance

What is Spiritual Bypassing?

Posted on by Michael Rose
Their loved one was palliative with only a couple of days to live.   Everything medical that could be done had been done and her cancer-ravaged body was plain worn out.  The goals of care were to keep her comfortable. Her husband vacillated from ‘this is Gods will’, “fighting the enemy to the end”  and “staying…
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Faith of the Everyday

Posted on by Michael Rose
Once upon a time, there were two carpenters; framers to be precise. Each day they would arrive at the building site to pound nails, erect walls. The first, a glum man, was asked what he was doing. “I hammer nails,” he replied, looking sour. “Every day, hammer nails and more nails. Day in, day out,…
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“God gives but doesn’t share”

Posted on by Michael Rose
This little saying was in my inbox the other morning.  It is a snippet from Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder,  the story about a person named Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia. Farmer is a physician and medical anthropologist spending his career working to improve healthcare for some of the poorest…
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Deep Dream – Redux

Posted on by Michael Rose
[I recently shared this poem and a Lectio Divina type exercise – you can read it here.  In this post, I share my own experience and thoughts.  Again, you are most welcome to share your experience with the poem in the comment section below.] Deep Dream I’ve spent many years learning how to fix life,…
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A Deep Dream

Posted on by Michael Rose
I’ve spent many years learning how to fix life, only to discover at the end of the day that life is not broken There is a hidden seed of greater wholeness in everyone and everything. We serve life best when we water it and befriend it. When we listen before we act. In befriending life,…
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Welcome to my Garden

Posted on by Michael Rose
Take your shoes off in the garden of my soul for it is holy ground. You are welcome in the vulnerability of your bare feet to spend some time and be refreshed. All I ask is that you stay to the path as not to trample and crush the most delicate of new vegetation, and…
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Hope from the Ashes

Posted on by Michael Rose
Andrea and I went hiking a few days ago in Waterton National Park.  It is a lovely treasure just a couple of hours’ drive from home.   With COVID-19 restrictions being slowly lifted the park was being reopened on a limited basis so we took the opportunity to visit. We set out along a trail…
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The Both-And approach to Fear

Posted on by Michael Rose
It was a simple statement on my feed this morning.  They stated, “Faith and worry cannot co-exist.” With a sigh, I asked, “So then why is it that fear and faith co-exist all the time?” We have to do better than mere platitudes. Surely Christian spirituality is more robust in the crucible of real life….
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