• It Is Through The Face That We Encounter God
• A Message of Hope
• Waiting
• An Octopus at Easter.
• Invite relationships
• Transformation
• This Moment
• A Good Story
• Can I Be A Healer?
• The virtue of doubt
• Mary Mackillop, Woman Of Faith
• Fridge Doors And The Rest Of The World
• Entertaining Angels
• More connected than ever, more disconnected than ever
• Feast of Teresa of Avila, 15th October
• The Witness of Maternity Leave
• Something New
• Farewell
• Australian Catholic University is a Public University Open to All
• What if God Was One of Us?
• Zest for life
• Attendance
• Christmas Angel Tree
• A Present For Me
• On being famous
• Reason To Celebrate
• World Youth Day
• May the evening's twilight find me gentle still
• Goodness: God’s Gift To Us
• A time for every purpose under heaven
• The Mad Dash
• The Positive Spirit is Fully Alive
• Its time to change
• Living an Abundant Life

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in our Staff Reflection morning facilitated by Maree Watt. Every time I passed by the lifts at St. Pat’s, I was drawn to the poster advertising this opportunity. What initially attracted me were the bright vivid colours of Uluru. The title of the reflection “Landscapes of the Heart” also awoke something within me.

At this time of the year, it seemed a little extravagant to allow myself some ‘time out for me’. Everywhere you go you hear people talking about how busy they are, having to meet deadlines, attending one meeting after the other and, to top it off, you throw Advent and Christmas into the mix!!!

However it was the best present I could have given myself, and I know that the others who walked this journey with me would agree. Maree led us through a gentle meditation where we had an opportunity to allow our spirit to travel to some part of this great country, a space with which we could identify for its ability to relax and renew us. What does this space do for our spirit?

In Advent, particularly, the voices of the prophets reach us with such longing and hope… the outer land so intimately connected with the inner.

Maybe a challenge for each of us at this time of the year is to give ourselves permission to spoil ourselves with that wonderful gift ….time out. All the energy of the earth is available to us each and every day. Draw it in!

• Geraldine Butler,
• Mission Engagement,
• Melbourne