The Gentle Road Home

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January 15, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace The thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness. - Fr. Greg Boyle - The Gentle Road Home "Back before Christmas, I led a weekend retreat in California. At its close, one of the retreatants presented me with The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness. I happen to be an admirer of the book's author, Gregory Boyle. Hes the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, "the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world." Extravagant. Tenderness. I've been reading snatches of Boyles book in hotel rooms, in airports, on bumpy flights. Last night, when I finally finished, I flipped back through the pages, reviewing lines I'd highlighted. "Make us into a cento," they said, in chorus. So that's exactly what I've done." Phyllis Cole-Dai shares more. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out this in-depth talk by Father Gregory Boyle. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story Being Resilient During Coronavirus The Keys to Aging Well Three Methods for Working with Chaos Love in the Time of Coronavirus A Pandemic Poem-Prayer Amanda Gorman: The Miracle of Morning Peter Levine and Thomas Huebl: Healing Trauma & Spiritual Growth DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 242,682 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More