Keepsakes for the Journey: Four Weeks on Faith Deepening

The things with which we do not want to part may have little or no monetary value. We treasure them not as possessions but as memory banks to retain when life loses its meaning and we feel as unstable as twigs tossing wildly on a stormy sea. These precious keepsakes remind us that life may look chaotic but that there is a plan to it. Keepsakes influence the way we view the connection between what we do and who we are. Muto has collected brief sayings by classical and contemporary spiritual writers whose words are keepsakes by anyone's standards. As Saint Augustine of Hippo once said, "Feed your soul in divine readings; they will prepare for you a spiritual feast."