Our Easter Season E-Course is underway and it is a joy to guide others through the practice of praying with water, wind, earth, and fire as vessels for awareness of the ways God moves through the world. This first week's focus is on wind. Click the links below for some blog posts written by participants: [...]
Posts in the Lent Easter category
Season of Resurrection
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Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch! Go out and walk in the rain! If you are in love, then why are you asleep? Wake up, wake up! You have slept millions of years Why not wake up this morning -Kabir I have been away this last week, traveling to visit family [...]
Blessed Be
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*POETRY PARTY – DRAWING WINNER* This week's Poetry Party was again filled with beauty. I love the community that is created in this space around each theme and the way you share your own longings and vision through poetry. The blessings and Beatitudes were so moving and so filled with gratitude for the small things [...]
Pause for Refreshment
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The last nine days have been fairly intense as the Novena of Grace has unfolded. This is a nine-day retreat in everyday life which I coordinate and our presenters were stellar (you can even listen to the talks online at the Novena link). I am still receiving the graces poured out on me and my [...]
Altar for an Unknown God
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I am in the midst of the Novena of Grace, a powerful Lenten retreat in everyday life which I coordinate for the Ignatian Spirituality Center. Along with teaching my Lenten E-Course on Benedictine Spiritual Practices and Eyes of the Heart: Photography as Contemplative Practice courses, my days are full of rich reflection. I offer here [...]
Saints in Walgreens (Reprise)
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Last year I wrote this Lenten reflection on meeting the Saints in Walgreens and I offer it here again in a slightly revised version: ____________________________________________ These have been very full days. This Thursday the Novena of Grace begins, which is a nine-day preached retreat in everyday life hosted by the Ignatian Spirituality Center where I work [...]
Transfiguration
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Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. -Luke 9:28-29 Today’s gospel reading is of the Transfiguration of Jesus which is a story of seeing and how beauty becomes a window onto the divine. The [...]
Celebrate with me!!
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Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction – the book – is here! My box of books has arrived – I got a sneak peek at my new book at a book festival a week and a half ago and finally have my own copies to hold in my hand and savor. [...]
