Faith formation and sacred conversations are the focus on the faith journey through spiritual direction, retreats, books, and other resources.
All in Deep Listening
After resurrection, there’s nothing left to do but find the road home and begin again..
Between death and resurrection we pause and hold a space to reflect on all that has occurred during this Holy Week.
Self-talk can be negative if that’s what we grow up with. But it doesn’t mean we have to appropriate those messages as truth for the rest of our lives. What if our self-talk was formed by the love of God? Discerning what is from God and what is from others is part of getting to know ourselves more deeply.
Henri Nouwen said, “Discernment requires not only reading with the heart but being willing to put down the book we are reading to just listen to what God is saying to us through its words…” Books form us, inspire, entertain, confound, and confront us in so many ways. How have books formed your life?
Reimagining the church and the congregation is opening doors to new ways of expressing our journey together, and spiritual direction is playing a role in opening that door.
How do you determine if meeting with a spiritual director is right for you? What is it your life is telling you?
Spiritual direction is a gift for the soul… a gift of coming home to God, to self, to others..
There’s something about the writings of the saints and mystics that speak of passion, devotion, extravagant love. How do I kindle that same fire in my own faith journey?
Mostly we live on the surface of life. Yet beneath and beyond an intricate network of life is just waiting for us to notice.
Sometimes we over-complicated the beautiful simplicity of spirituality and knowing God.
What happens when we practice spiritual disciplines? Sometimes nothing perceptible, sometimes everything life changing.
Spiritual discipline is an offering of time and space that welcomes God into the soul.
Faith. It’s a big topic and we each come at it from a different perspective. What has your faith journey been like? What does your faith map look like?
Wrestling with faith often involves embracing doubt, not to wrestle it to the ground and suppress it. But rather to take it by the hand and allow it to open a door that leads us to a broader unfolding of what it means to have faith
Dust. The unadorned essence of all earthy substance, becomes the dwelling place of God.
I’ve long felt that our cultural insistence of measuring our accomplishments, our levels of productivity, stature, or growth is a silent trauma to the soul that we have come to accept as the norm of our existence.
The soul speaks. You’ve likely heard it in a moment when an inner voice tells you to pay attention to something, a change, an invitation, a restlessness within. Or times when a quandary suddenly crystalizes into an awakening. But we spend little time practicing the art of listening to our own soul talk
A recent article in the New York Times highlights the benefits of spiritual direction in listening for the Divine on your faith journey.
These are soul-searching days that continually call us to turn our hearts and minds and souls to the One who knows us best and loves us most.
How is it with your soul? This is your spiritual fitness check in, and how you talk to your soul makes a difference.
