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The Importance of Spiritual Direction
Jan 20

Jan 20 The Importance of Spiritual Direction

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Awareness, Contemplative Life, Deep Listening, Prayer, 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
Jan 12

Jan 12 Soul Searching and Spiritual Direction

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Awareness, Community, Deep Listening, Faith Formation, Discernment, Prayer, 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.

Spiritual Fitness and Soul Talk
Jan 9

Jan 9 Spiritual Fitness and Soul Talk

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Deep Listening, Discernment, Prayer, Spiritual Direction

How is it with your soul? This is your spiritual fitness check in, and how you talk to your soul makes a difference.

Reading the Signs on the Path in 2021
Dec 29

Dec 29 Reading the Signs on the Path in 2021

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Deep Listening, Discernment, Journaling, Prayer, Spiritual Direction, Writing

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.

In Between
Dec 28

Dec 28 In Between

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Awareness, Deep Listening, Discernment, Faith Formation, Prayer, Spiritual Direction

The week between Christmas and New Years is always one of my favorite weeks of the year. In the rhythm of my life, I’ve scheduled at least a day if not the entire week as an intentional, prayerful pause to reflect on the year past and welcome the year to come

A Christmas Blessing
Dec 22

Dec 22 A Christmas Blessing

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Blessings, Spiritual Direction
JOY: Week Four - Advent Guided Meditation
Dec 19

Dec 19 JOY: Week Four - Advent Guided Meditation

Marsha Crockett

“The time came.” It has arrived, the final labor and push as Mary delivers to us the long-awaited Savior. Emmanuel. God with Us. Making his home with us. The Divine now knows all of what it means to be human.

PEACE: Week Three - Advent Guided Meditation
Dec 11

Dec 11 PEACE: Week Three - Advent Guided Meditation

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Contemplative Life, Prayer, Meditation, Spiritual Direction

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

LOVE: Week Two - Advent Guided Meditation: Conceived
Dec 5

Dec 5 LOVE: Week Two - Advent Guided Meditation: Conceived

Marsha Crockett
Art, Abiding, Journaling, Meditation, Spiritual Direction
HOPE: Week One - Advent Guided Meditation
Nov 28

Nov 28 HOPE: Week One - Advent Guided Meditation

Marsha Crockett
Deep Listening, Abiding, Meditation, Prayer, Spiritual Direction

An Advent Guided Meditation: Week One - Hope

At the Doorpost: A Virtual Year-end Mini Retreat
Nov 14

Nov 14 At the Doorpost: A Virtual Year-end Mini Retreat

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Community, Contemplative Life, Prayer, Retreat, Spiritual Direction

An invitation to a year-end pause blessing the year past and welcoming the year to come..

Your Life Tells a Story... Re-member the Past
Oct 24

Oct 24 Your Life Tells a Story... Re-member the Past

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Awareness, Deep Listening, Journaling, Spiritual Direction, Storytelling
Your Life Tells a Story... Meeting The Challenge
Oct 21

Oct 21 Your Life Tells a Story... Meeting The Challenge

Marsha Crockett
Journaling, Storytelling, Spiritual Direction, Writing

When it comes to embracing your own life as story, what obstacles get in the way of valuing your life as worthy of exploration?

The Beauty of An Unraveled Life
Oct 13

Oct 13 The Beauty of An Unraveled Life

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Community, Deep Listening, Faith Formation, Spiritual Direction
"Prepare-My Heart" Listening Groups
Oct 4

Oct 4 "Prepare-My Heart" Listening Groups

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Community, Deep Listening, Heart's Desire, Rule of Life, Spiritual Direction, Soul Care

Registration is now open for a four-week listening group experience starting on October 27th.

The Contemplative Swing
Sep 30

Sep 30 The Contemplative Swing

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Deep Listening, Contemplative Life, Prayer, Spiritual Direction

The rhythm of the swing can be a lot like the inward and outward movement of the contemplative life. But there is a vulnerability in swinging and in the contemplative life, of trusting the momentum to move forward or backward, from centered self, out into the world.

The Contemplative Ebb and Flow
Sep 25

Sep 25 The Contemplative Ebb and Flow

Marsha Crockett
Awareness, Deep Listening, Prayer, Spiritual Direction

The contemplative life has an ebb and flow rhythm taking us inward to know God and outward to express God. How has contemplation lead you to action? How has action lead you into contemplation?

The Contemplative Womb
Sep 19

Sep 19 The Contemplative Womb

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Community, Deep Listening, Discernment, Faith Formation, Heart's Desire, Spiritual Direction

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
Sep 9

Sep 9 Guided Meditation #5: The Cave of My Heart

Marsha Crockett
Abiding, Deep Listening, Heart's Desire, Hospitality, Prayer, Soul Care, Spiritual Direction

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.

Guided Meditation #4: Studio of the Soul
Sep 7

Sep 7 Guided Meditation #4: Studio of the Soul

Marsha Crockett
Faith Formation, Prayer, Soul Care, Spiritual Direction, Storytelling, Art

Guided Meditation #4…Studio of the Soul… If you imagine yourself as a work of art formed by the Divine Master, what artform would you take?

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