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Inner Life
Welcome to Inner Life. Through this monthly newsletter, sent out by email and which you can find here, we want to open up a conversation with you, and with all those seeking inspiration and spiritual nourishment. Each month we ask a different contributor to answer one or other of these questions:
- “What nourishes your inner life?”
- “Can you tell us about an encounter that has transformed you?”
This newsletter will evolve in link with the feedback we get, so don’t hesitate to react, to respond to us, to share with us what has touched you, what has jarred with you, and perhaps what has chimed with you.
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On the track of the Snow Panther
September 2022 – A great friend of La Ferme, an Irishman, a catholic priest, Phil Kearney contributes here with a reflexion he wrote after seeing a beautiful documentary called ‘The Snow Panther’. It is the story of an encounter, a special one indeed.
The story of a caramel square
July 2022 – A great friend of La Ferme, member of our board of directors, Curt Armstrong is american. Curt recalls an encounter that changed him, one that took place more than 40 years ago. There’s also a caramel square involved.
A Christmas Conversation
June 2022 – A computer scientist and a filmmaker, Fabio Bertagnin is also a consecrated layman and a member of the Focolare Movement.
Fabio remembers here about a conversation he once had, on a Christmas evening, with a Muslim friend.
A late afternoon prayer
May 2022 – Australian, former deputy leader of L’Arche International, Eileen Glass recalls a time of prayer shared with Sue, during a late afternoon of 1977 : this is a moment that changed everything for Eileen.
Untameable
March 2022 – A long-time member of L’Arche and Lebanese, Hoda Aouad-Sharkey has to deal with an inner life which is a wild, untameable animal…
The Best Time of Day
February 2022 – An American from the West Coast, a father of three children, one of whom is differently abled, an entrepreneur and a member of the board of L’Arche USA, Brian Berg gets up early, very early, to nourish his inner life.
The Small Things
November 2021 – Director of the Christian Office for Persons with a Disability in Paris after spending 25 years in L’Arche, Philippe de Lachapelle explains us how he nourishes his inner life : on a bicycle.
Eat, pray, celebrate
October 2021 – Former leader of L’Arche UK, now leading the “Charter Process” for L’Arche International, John Sargent tells us here about the encounter with Brian : a life-changing one !
The Way of the agnostic
November 2021 – Born to a Chinese mother and a German father, now the director of the most recent L’Arche community in Germany, Landsberg, Bianca Berger considers herself an agnostic, yet with a strong inner life. Here’s how she nourishes it.