meditations

Sister Wendy presents personal reflections and meditations based on works of art from the Renaissance to the present.

Henri Nouwen invites us to reflect on the tension between our desire for solitude and the demands of contemporary life. He reminds us that it was in solitude that Jesus found the courage to follow God?s will. And he shows us that fruitful love and service must spring from a living relationship with God. Beautifully written, elegantly simple, Out of Solitude is as fresh today as it was thirty years ago. "We want to overcome problems and adversities and want to change at all costs. An alternative is to care for ourselves, each other, and our world.".

In lucid and lyrical prose, Lou Masson takes the seemingly insignificant details of daily life, the brief words and gestures that linger, and reveals them to be the vital essence of existence.

These prayers and reflections have grown out of a daily listening to God in the changing seasons of my heart. They are the seasons of Emptying, Hoping, Loving and Healing, Dying and Rising, and Believing. I share with you the seasons of my heart. Perhaps through these prayers and reflections you may grow more sensitive to the abiding presence of God in the seasons of your heart.