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Reflections

Monthly reflections gifted by  Wisdom teachers and community voices who share insights, stories, and contemplative guidance. Here you’ll find articles to inspire your practice and support your journey on the Wisdom path.

The Great Easter Invitation

By
Heather Ruce

March 26, 2026

Here we stand in the midst of Holy Week.
As we recollect the events that unfolded, we begin to sense that they are not only sacred stories, but living patterns that continue to reverberate within us and around us now.
Holy Week begins with celebration. A road covered with palm branches. A king entering the city.
On the surface, all appears well.

Pip, lost and found

By
Paula Pryce

March 2, 2026

The reconciling force of an adventuring cat (a mostly true story) by Paula Pryce - photo by James Wheeler Pip went missing. Then in his own way, Jeremy did too. Jeremy was the young man who loved and fed her. He lost himself with the loss of Pip, but after a while, something unexpected happened. Jeremy learned that reconciliation only really comes when we give everything away. It began like this: Jeremy moved back home. He had long been a nomad, searching out holy places in the desert, by the...

Love Holds Us

By
Victor Acquista

February 2, 2026

She’s 7.5 lbs, about a year old according to our veterinarian’s office that scanned the stray dog after she came into our lives earlier this week. No chip, no collar, unclaimed days later. My wife named her Mia. Cradled in my arms and lap, I note her slow breath and feel the comforting beat of her heart. We are connected in this moment of stillness...

Creation Over Consumption: Practising Discernment Online

By
Erin Carson DeWolfe

January 2, 2026

When I was 11 years old, my dad—then a programmer analyst at UVic—told me about this new thing called “the internet,” which he had just started playing around with at his office. (I later learned that the ’net had been around since the 1960s, but only at the dawn of the 1990s was it beginning to gain global traction.) There was this tool called “email” that allowed you to send an electronic “letter” almost instantly to somebody else, anywhere in the world, who also had a computer connected...

The You-ness of Me: Objectless Devotion of Mother and Child

By
Paula Pryce

December 2, 2025

And yet for some time now, the Divine has been seeking my hand. I can sense her corporeal warmth, as though the Queen of Heaven is opening her arms to me in invitation...

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