Parenting and Our Parents Carl Jung said deep transformation happens in the presence of images. They speak to the depths of our soul in a healing way. These transformative images are the core and foundation of In.Sight. They take the form of a story, an essay, a poem, a song, a play, a movie, […]
Love and Marriage In the story The Forester’s Daughter by Claire Keegan we are introduced to Victor and Martha Deegan. Two people as different as chalk and cheese, superficially alike and yet totally different in their qualities. They both have a dream – just not the same one. During courtship, Deegan takes Martha out to […]
Gathering Friends Like Roses “Surround yourself with people who always insist on seeing the incomparable radiance of your being and who refuse to let you settle for less than who you are.” ~ Omid Safi This prescription for friendship comes from Gathering Friends Like Roses, an essay by Omid Safi that will be one of […]
“Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” — Father Dom Chapman OSB Speaking for all the prayerless persons I have been and for the prayerful persons I hope to become, I bow before the deepest mystery of faith. I suspect we pray far more than we know. Having a “stained-glass” image of prayer, we […]
In Advent, we wait for Christ to come to us. We prepare our homes and hearts in purposeful passivity. While waiting has intention and meaning, there is also a time to seek and to journey. In all these endeavors we crave instruction. What is the right way to undertake finding Christ? Should I stay […]
November is a month of reckoning. At the beginning we honor our dead. At the end we count our blessings. These events invite us to consider the idea of legacy. What do we leave behind, intended or not? Sometimes these are tangible things that people can attribute directly to us. Sometimes it is a more […]
Beginnings have a duality to them that we often don’t stop to consider. Typically it is a fresh start, with opportunity and optimism. But beginnings are also the result of something coming to an end. This cyclical element of life is worth examining in Autumn, when the natural world around us is reaching its conclusion. […]