The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Courage encourages courage.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.