I don’t believe I’ve shared much on the spiritual part of my life, though this may be entirely insufficient as well. I guess it’s always a struggle (my journey that is), but anyway, there have been a few things standing out to me lately. These have a lot to do with adjusting to life in Kenya. I’m certainly figuring out how to live here, just as I have done in MN and Guatemala.
Prayer hasn’t been an easy thing to keep up with. I’m still continuing to explore how I can keep my relationship with God going strong here. I felt like I had found it up at school with the opportunity to pray and go to mass with the monks. That sincerely filled me well. Even though there are so many religious here and they even pray morning and night in my place here, it feels so much different. Missing Sunday mass while traveling is hard for me too (I do get the readings sent to my cell by text message though!). Anyway, what I’ve found to be fulfilling comes from something I did almost a year ago.
Before leaving for Guatemala, I found myself sitting on my bed at home in Denver downloading every single podcast that I found interesting. It turned out to add up to some 700 tracks. I had no idea when I would listen to them or how they would even help me, but I was glad that they were free and seemed like good things. I listened to few in Guatemala and over the summer, but now, I’m listening to a few of the tracks on a daily basis.
I’ve pulled out all the ones that are prayer and all of them that give some kind of information or instruction. Now I enjoy at least one of both per day, and it’s been quite enriching for me. My favorite podcast to listen to is the U of MN Duluth Newman Catholic Campus Ministry podcast, which consists of homilies recorded by Fr. Mike Schmitz. He simply has a gift for preaching especially in a relevant way to college students. Otherwise, I’m really enjoying America Public Media’s “Speaking of Faith” podcast.
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