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Creativity During Advent: A Writing Exercise

Imagine that Jesus is going to be born in your neighborhood. Try to forget the details of the Gospel story, and approach this divine...

Using Creativity to Heal the World

When Jesus came to Earth, he represented a great change in the world’s currents. What was divided could now come together. What was sin...

Creativity and Healing in Advent

This week, we’ll be doing an Advent mini-retreat here at dotMagis. Our theme is creativity and healing. We’ll focus on creativity and think about...

The Contemplation on the Incarnation and Advent

The Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises begins with a Contemplation on the Incarnation (SE 101–109). The graces we pray for with this meditation...

A Truth-Telling Thanksgiving Prayer

St. Ignatius urged his followers to converse with Jesus in the same way that one would speak with a very dear friend. In his...

A Different Kind of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving will be different this year. As I write this, in early November, the United States is experiencing a new and frightening spike in...

Cobwebs and Cataracts

Joan had cataract surgery. Overnight she developed all kinds of wrinkles. Well, actually, she simply hadn’t seen them before. With her eyesight improved, looking...

Nurturing Gratitude

“Nurturing gratitude makes us happy,” says Spiritual Practices for the Brain author Anne Kertz Kernion in this brief video on gratitude. How do you...

Permission to Notice

When I was in Kindergarten, I took the school bus home. The driver dropped me off three blocks away from my house. Since my...

From a Mountain of Trash to Beauty

This morning, my husband, John, and I took a lap around the paved loop that tops a city park not far from where we...

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