Category: Commitment
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Get This App: Reimagining the Examen
I love to find tools to help Everyday Stewards on their daily walk and today I want to share one such tool with you. If you are familiar with the Everyday Stewardship spirituality, you know that the prayers of St. Ignatius of Loyola play a big part in our daily life, especially the Suspice and…
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Patience is a Virtue
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 Patience is a virtue. At least that’s what they say. You might think Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales first used the saying. There he wrote, “patience is a great virtue of perfection.” However, William Langland first used the saying in 1370 in…
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True Stewardship
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 What does it mean to give of yourself completely, without reservation, without fear, and without a concern for the cost? Should it matter if the person who needs us is unlike us in skin color, religion, or nationality? What does real mercy look like?…
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Never Take Freedom for Granted
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a…
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The Remedy for Spiritual ADD
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 The world is a very busy place. Our lives are sometimes very complicated. Everywhere we turn there are distractions. Add to all this the increasing number of people with virtually no attention span or diagnosed ADD and you have a reality where it can…
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On a Lawnmower for Love
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 There once lived a man named Alvin Straight. He lived in Iowa. His brother Henry lived in Wisconsin. Alvin loved his brother. In 1994, at the age of 80, Henry had a stroke. Alvin, in his late 70’s himself, could not imagine not…
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Mama Irene
My wife is always posting on social media about children who have been adopted or children who are seeking to be adopted. My wife was adopted. This fuels her desire for every child to have a family to call their own. We have friends that have welcomed new members into their family by adoption. It’s…
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All the Time in the World?
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for Ascension of the Lord 2016 Nowadays I travel a good bit, which means I am away from my wife and children for periods of time, some short but some long. But what makes it easier for me, besides being able to share the Good News of Jesus with people all…
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How Hard is it to be a Disciple of Jesus?
So what does Jesus Christ ask of us? What does it mean to be a real disciple? In Matthew 19, a young man with many worldly possessions addresses this question to Jesus himself. The answer given is that one must sell all they have and give the proceeds away to the poor. In Matthew 16, Jesus…
Tracy Earl Welliver 