{"id":37450,"date":"2021-03-02T02:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/?p=37450"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:57:32","slug":"relax-take-a-deep-breath-echoes-of-the-salesian-spirit-from-kathleen-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/2021\/03\/02\/relax-take-a-deep-breath-echoes-of-the-salesian-spirit-from-kathleen-norris\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax. Take a Deep Breath\u2014Echoes of the Salesian Spirit, from Kathleen Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this Lenten season, a time when we are called to a deeper conversion of heart, the words of Kathleen Norris, a great spiritual writer from the Benedictine tradition, echoes the Salesian spirit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We make such a fuss about seeking God.\u00a0 We are anxious about so many things, and faith, prayer, and searching for God are not excepted.\u00a0 Are we doing it right?\u00a0 Will a retreat teach us a better way?\u00a0 Which method of prayer will be most effective for us?\u00a0 What church congregation will best fit us spiritually?\u00a0 Probably the best thing we can do is relax, take a deep breath, stop thinking about what we want or need, and forget about it.\u00a0 Seeking God, that is.\u00a0 Instead, we might wait, and begin to silently ponder the ways in which God may already have been seeking us, all along, in the faulty, scary stuff of our ordinary lives.<br \/>\n<\/em>\u2014from <em>Amazing Grace<\/em>, 1998, p. 299.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this Lenten season, a time when we are called to a deeper conversion of heart, the words of Kathleen Norris, a great spiritual writer from the Benedictine tradition, echoes the Salesian spirit. We make such a fuss about seeking God.\u00a0 We are anxious about so many things, and faith, prayer, and searching for God are not excepted.\u00a0 Are we<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/2021\/03\/02\/relax-take-a-deep-breath-echoes-of-the-salesian-spirit-from-kathleen-norris\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,14,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-faculty","category-salesian","category-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37451,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions\/37451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}