Posts filed under spiritual issues
LIVING A CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE IN HARVARD SQUARE: A POETRY RETREAT
Today we will take a day’s respite from the theme of forgiveness. I will return to this theme in a future posting. Each year, for the past four years, St. Paul Parish’s Lay Committee on Contemporary Spirituality and Public Concern has invited two Chicagoans, Judith Valente, a poet-PBS journalist, and her husband, Charles Reynard, a [...]
EVERETT WORTHINGTON’S REACH FOR FORGIVENESS
In struggling to come to terms with my aunt and her words and behavior toward my mother, the work of Everett Worthington on forgiveness was particularly useful. His ideas were and are anchor points for me as I continue to move from an unforgiving stance to forgiveness in my daily life. Briefly, here is Worthington’s [...]
REACHING FOR FORGIVENESS
In struggling to come to terms with my aunt and her words and behavior toward my mother, the work of Everett Worthington on forgiveness was particularly useful. I discovered his research on forgiveness when I began to explore George Vaillant’s idea about the importance of gratitude AND forgiveness for aging well. To me gratitude and [...]
“Working with the Spiritual Issues of Geriatric Patients”: A Consultation to the Outpatient Geriatric Team of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Psychiatry Department
Last Tuesday, March 9th, I facilitated a meeting of the Outpatient Geriatric Team of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Psychiatry Department. The focus was “Working with the Spiritual Issues of Geriatric Patients.” To prepare for the meeting I asked team members to send me their questions about spiritual issues and the elderly. These questions provided my initial [...]