Beckon Us Back into Your Peace
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
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This week on Mothering Spirit
Holly Forseth admits how hard friendship can be in motherhood: “Making new friends when you’re an introvert can be difficult, especially when you are at a time in your life where reciprocation feels impossible. Kristi showed up for me in a way that I didn’t even know could exist in a new friend, mirroring God’s own love for us, unconditional and full of personal care.”
This week’s Advent Prayer for Overwhelmed Parents seeks peace in December’s chaos: “Beckon us back into Your peace, that is not found in presents but Your presence. Draw us close to Your side, where blessing comes not from busyness but belovedness.”
On Friday we shared 3 new ways to celebrate Advent as a parent: simple, free practices for your personal & family prayer this season.
Advent Extras
Need a One-Minute Retreat? Take a deep breath and pray for peace.
Share this prayer with a friend who’s stressed in this season of too-much.
Art of the Visitation, a free Advent guide, and a meditation on Mary’s contemplation—all here for you.
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Readers respond
This week we asked readers: How has friendship changed your motherhood?
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A final word for reflection
“We must be swift to obey the winged impulses of [Christ’s] Love, carrying him to wherever he longs to be; and those who recognize his presence will be stirred, like Elizabeth, with new life. They will know his presence, not by any special beauty or power shown by us, but in the way that the bud knows the presence of the light, by an unfolding in themselves, a putting forth of their own beauty.”
(from Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God)
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