by Rita Simon | Sep 21, 2018 | Reflections
In August, I attended a wonderful retreat in Maple Lake, MN. One of the presenters was a Lakota Sioux man, Joseph Medicine Robe, who frequently addressed us as “relatives,” and mentioned the Lakota phrase ‘mitakuye oyasin,’ which I wrote about several years back. A...
by Rita Simon | Jul 27, 2018 | Reflections
I was sitting in the dining hall at the University of St. Thomas while on retreat there last summer, when my attention was caught by a scene I viewed out of the window. A very tall, bare, grey tree towered alone amidst a stand of green trees. I was mesmerized by the...
by Rita Simon | Jun 1, 2018 | Reflections
“Do not worry about life or about your body. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?” Luke 12: 22-26 “Life is marked...
by Rita Simon | Apr 13, 2018 | Reflections
The Lord God…breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Gen: 2:7 Then he took a deep breath and breathed into them. “Receive the Holy Spirit,” he said. John: 20:22 Spirit lives inside our breath, and so every breath can become a...
by Rita Simon | Feb 23, 2018 | Reflections
“The world is my meeting place with God…as the body of God, it is wondrously, awesomely, divinely mysterious.”¹ “This model of the universe as the body of God invites…us to do something that Christians have seldom done: think about God and bodies…Such a focus...
