This evening marks the beginning of the Muslim observation of Ramadan, a month of fasting from sun up to sun down. This holy month invites the faithful into deeper awareness of their relationship with The Holy and deeper engagement with their faith.
What practices help put you in touch with your deepest spiritual commitments?
You could be checking out something crucial on your phone, but then again, you might be checking out from the beauty and possibility around you while you follow something trivial down a technological rabbit hole.
What draws you away from what is most important, and what draws you back?
“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
—Elie Wiesel
Whose smile feels particularly like grace to you?
Face it. We can’t always be graceful. Sometimes, trying something new requires going through an awkward phase when the parts just don’t seem to fit together. Sometimes, it turns out, the joy isn’t really so much in grace as in the willingness to have fun doing something new badly.
What do you enjoy doing awkwardly?
Sometimes healing comes in the form of technologies to fix what is broken—surgeries, medications, therapies of all sorts. But sometimes healing comes simply from a loving presence who will hold you in the brokenness.
How do you offer a healing hand?
