It’s the time of year when we are drawn to look back at highlights and challenges of the current year and consider new directions for the year to come. But New Year’s resolutions, no matter how well-intentioned, are often like seeds planted in soil that cannot sustain their growth. Here’s a question suggested by the term well-intentioned:How can we do well not only at creating intentions for new directions but at remaining intentional about them daily throughout 2015? For two

A Dominican friar born in 1260 has become an important spiritual companion to me. Meister Eckhart was an enormously popular preacher in the fourteenth century. He got in trouble with the Church for speaking as a mystic--that is, for blurring the line between where the soul ends and God begins. Mystics live with a sense of union with God, and so such blurred language comes naturally to them. Here is a Meister Eckhart quote that gives me something I can use all year long from t