Tag: Prayer Life
How to protect our inner life through the presence of God
Catholic convert Etty Hillesum believed that every atom of hate we put into the world makes this world an even more inhospitable place. She lived instead in the presence of God, and has lessons to teach about protecting our inner peace, writes Mother Hilda Scott OSB.
Contemplative moments of motherhood
Like many mums this Sunday I will be lucky enough to have a big fancy breakfast delivered to me in bed, made lovingly and laboriously by my kids (with help from their dad). And after all that hard and hungry work, at least one of them is likely to wriggle carefully under the quilt so as not to spill my coffee and kindly point out that surely it’s too much to eat all by myself—and would I like a little help?
