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Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? You came to us today as the spiritual eye in the nimbus, or halo, around Jesus’s head from the cross which spoke to Francis. That nimbus is the spiritual eye. It is just that the artists who depict Jesus that way are...

Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?One of the best experiences of my most recent visit to Assisi was a new-to-me find: the side altar called the Immaculata in the cathedral of Saint Francis. There the 400-year-old statue of the mother of Jesus still...

Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?I’m sitting once again with Francis’s beloved disciple, Chiara. At least, she used to lie here, one foot away from where Lahari and I are sitting—for 600 years! The empty coffin is just a short flight of stairs up...

Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “What all felt most important in the shrines you visited in Assisi?”  Well, the first was the Porziuncola. I was struck by the perseverance and complete surrender to God’s will it took for Francis to rebuild...

Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Christmas has been a big energy this year. Helping the devotees tune into Christ and his story took big swaths of the ashram’s energy, by many of the residents. They all grew from putting out that kind of energy and...

Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Well, today’s the day. Our annual 8-hour Christmas meditation to honor your incarnation, as The Christ. Lord, You are so beloved, and so dear. We really do want to join You, to feel Your presence, to know Your will...