Faith formation and sacred conversations are the focus on the faith journey through spiritual direction, retreats, books, and other resources.
Guided Meditation #2: Wilderness Time… We all face desert time, dry spells when we feel disconnected from the Spirit. What is the invitation during such times?
Guided Meditation #2 takes you deep into the call for something more, more connection, contentment, more of God.
Guided meditation #1 considers the cycle of the field as metaphor for the condition of the soul. How is it with your soul today?
How would you describe the center point of listening? How do you define listening?
Abiding with God, self, and others requires a devoted commitment to explore what that means for you, and how spiritual direction may play a role in this commitment.
If life is holy ground, then your life story matters? Here are three ideas of how to embrace, capture, and telling your story.
A thank you gift for creating a virtual community of care.
What’s the most asked question I get when I tell someone I’m a spiritual director? “What’s a spiritual director and what do you do?”
One of the more frustrating parts of the spiritual life can be discerning the signs or hearing the voice within that moves us along the path on our journey. Exploring the possibilities takes time.
A list of six books recommended for developing a life of prayer and meditation.
Meditating on art, images, nature, all that the eye can see is a doorway and into the love language of God. Visio divina is sacred seeing as we contemplate color, texture, tones, motion, and learn to see God.
Engaging the imagination in the spiritual life I believe is how God intended for us to use this amazing brain function. After all “faith” is about believing what we cannot see. And “hope” plants a longing in something we have not yet received.
How do you practice “active and engaged meditation?” One ancient spiritual practice called lectio divina is a prayerful attentive reading of scripture.
Meditation is the discipline that opens hearts and minds to transformation. It’s about a posture of open hands and heart, releasing all that we think we need to be free and unencumbered to receive all that God intends.
Why meditate? What are the benefits? How does it open our lives to the Divine within? This is the first of several posts on meditation.
What’s it like to battle for your faith while in a spiritual desert? How does spiritual direction help?
The gentle rhythm of slowing moving from external to internal and back out again is symbolic of the spiritual path moving ever nearer to the inner being, the abiding place of God.
Although I am no dream-works specialist, I love paying attention to my dreams and the symbols they become in my own life. I believe they are windows into the soul – unfiltered images surfacing from deep within mind and spirit
