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Soul Talk: Redefining Identity Part 3
We exist within a given time and place as we enter into the history of the world, within a certain culture that shapes our world view. These circumstances, as well as our physical being, can change our emotions and our experiences. Life is like the weather around the mountain that constantly changes. The weather is not the mountain, but the mountain bears witness to it.
Soul Talk: Redefining Identity Part 2
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.
Soul Talk: Redefining Identity Part 1
Taking selfies. It’s an iconic image that seems to define a culture bent on finding themselves, seeing themselves, perceiving themselves as others do. And it captures the metaphor of our longing for identity.
Soul Questioning
The question of who am I is never fully answered in this life. It asks for a continued pondering, presence, and practice in paying attention to the soul.
Soul Talk
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
Coming Home to Others
The inner being and the outer worlds are never mutually exclusive, never an either-or choice any more than the ocean can exist separate from the beach, or the tides function separately from the phases of the moon.
Coming Home to God
A little self knowledge is not only something to celebrate, but always leads to something Divine.
Coming Home to You
What does it mean to come home to yourself? What are the tools and resources you use to listen to your own life?
The Importance of Spiritual Direction
A recent article in the New York Times highlights the benefits of spiritual direction in listening for the Divine on your faith journey.
Soul Searching and Spiritual Direction
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.
Reading the Signs on the Path in 2021
If you’re considering what practices might accompany you through 2021, consider using these four words and questions as focus points of praying from your every-day experiences.
PEACE: Week Three - Advent Guided Meditation
The “way of peace…” Where is this way? How can we train to walk this path? The way of peace recognizes that peace doesn’t mean we are free of trouble, conflict, or the trauma that plagues the world. We soon realize the way of peace is paved within the heart, mind, and soul that rests in the belief that God’s goodness leads the way
HOPE: Week One - Advent Guided Meditation
An Advent Guided Meditation: Week One - Hope
At the Doorpost: A Virtual Year-end Mini Retreat
An invitation to a year-end pause blessing the year past and welcoming the year to come..
"Prepare-My Heart" Listening Groups
Registration is now open for a four-week listening group experience starting on October 27th.
The Contemplative Womb
What are you finding within the contemplative womb in your relationship with God? Are you still exploring your own story, incubating in the warmth of lavish love? Or are you ready to fledge, to soar on faith wings?
Guided Meditation #5: The Cave of My Heart
Guided Meditation #5: Key to My Heart… We rarely show hospitality to our own souls, yet entering the heart space where God waits to welcome us is the key to this prayer of imagination. Welcome in.
Spiritual Storytelling
If life is holy ground, then your life story matters? Here are three ideas of how to embrace, capture, and telling your story.