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LivingWithTheQuestions.com was
an outreach of Saint Nicholas Mission that offered daily reflections, meditations, and other resources to enhance, challenge,
and inform the spiritual journey.
Given the very small number of hits the site received during its final year of operation,
we decided to discontinue LivingWithTheQuestions.com when the domain name expired on October 28, 2008. The daily devotional
material may be accessed via this web page.
The material that does not update daily—or no longer updates daily—has
been archived at our Archived Reflections site while the Advent and Christmas reflections can be viewed at our Advent and Christmas Reflections site.
Please address any questions, comments or concerns to david@themissionparish.com ...
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I would like to beg you dear
Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be
given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, in Letters to a
Young Poet
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Reading Spiritually About Spiritual
Things
(Henri J. M. Nouwen)
Reading often means gathering information, acquiring
new insight and knowledge, and mastering a new field. It can lead us to degrees, diplomas, and certificates. Spiritual reading,
however, is different. It means not simply reading about spiritual things but also reading about spiritual things in a spiritual
way. That requires a willingness not just to read but to be read, not just to master but to be mastered by words. As long
as we read the Bible or a spiritual book simply to acquire knowledge, our reading does not help us in our spiritual lives.
We can become very knowledgeable about spiritual matters without becoming truly spiritual people.
As we read spiritually
about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading
and just listen to what God is saying to us through its words.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe
in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of
a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
—Dag Hammarskjold
in WORD FOR THE DAY
shared
with us by www.gratefulness.org
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The line separating good and evil passes not through
states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through
all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one
small bridgehead of good is retained.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
in Gulag Archipelago
shared
with us by Mirabile Dictu
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