Suffering and God’s Loving Accompaniment
What’s is God’s role in suffering? It might be helpful to see God as a parent who accompanies their child in pain.
Read Moreby andyotto | Jun 19, 2023 | The Tough Questions | 0
What’s is God’s role in suffering? It might be helpful to see God as a parent who accompanies their child in pain.
Read Moreby andyotto | Feb 20, 2023 | Awareness, The Tough Questions | 0
We are all seekers, longing for inner peace and purpose. What if we already had what we were seeking all along?
Read Moreby andyotto | Sep 26, 2022 | Discernment, The Tough Questions | 1
We sometimes try to conform God to our decisions, rather than the other way around. In his Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius explains how we often make a means an end in itself. We need both internal and external freedom.
Read Moreby andyotto | Mar 19, 2022 | The Tough Questions | 1
We’re all prone to the tactics of the evil spirit. For some it leads to catastrophic evil like war.
Read Moreby andyotto | Jan 11, 2021 | The Tough Questions | 1
Through his neighbourhood, Mister Rogers teaches us how to be people of love and how to truly know one another. His neighbourhood was kind of a metaphor for the kingdom of God.
Read Moreby andyotto | Dec 14, 2020 | Awareness, The Tough Questions | 4
The pandemic has revealed the tension between our experiences of poverty and abundance. It’s fitting to reflect on that this Advent season.
Read Moreby andyotto | Sep 21, 2020 | Scripture Reflections, The Tough Questions | 3
Do you read the Gospel and Jesus’ statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.
Read Moreby andyotto | Aug 24, 2020 | Prayer, The Tough Questions | 0
When we pray using our imagination we might worry that the content of our prayer is not of God, but of our own makings. Here are a few ways you can discern the “voice” in your prayer.
Read Moreby andyotto | Jun 8, 2020 | Awareness, Scripture Reflections, The Tough Questions | 1
For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those...
Read Moreby andyotto | May 11, 2020 | Essays, The Tough Questions | 3
Zoom fatigue, parenting fatigue, pandemic fatigue! Can we have courage to trust God in the midst of this rather than cling to false securities?
Read Moreby andyotto | Apr 27, 2020 | Awareness, The Tough Questions | 2
Struggling with boredom? God may be using it to unveil difficult truths.
Read Moreby andyotto | Nov 11, 2019 | Ignatian Basics, The Tough Questions | 2
It’s much broader and deeper than you think.
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This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.