Sending blessings and love to you this day – may your heart experience at least one moment of wide-open freedom today – may you breathe in possibility and breathe out hope. Have you joined with over 200 240 monks and signed the Monk Manifesto (and downloaded the printable PDF version)?  Did you sign up yet for the free e-course on becoming a Monk in the World? If you live in Seattle and offer compassionate listening to others through spiritual direction, chaplaincy, counseling, or pastoring consider joining our newly added session of Soul Care for Compassionate Listeners (limited to 6 participants / only three spaces left).

2010-2011 Soul Care for Compassionate Listeners Professional and personal growth through supervision and the expressive arts for Spiritual Directors, Chaplains, Counselors, & Pastors committed to compassionate listening and care of souls. with Kayce Stevens Hughlett, MA, LMHC & Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE October 2010-May 2011 – Monthly group meeting on Friday mornings in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA Please Note: Our first two groups filled quickly so we have added a third group on a different set of Friday mornings (see flyer for specific dates & details) Limited to 6 participants $600 for all 8 sessions / $100 non-refundable deposit to

If you are in the Seattle, Tacoma, or Olympia area consider joining St Placid Priory Spirituality Center for their program in Christian spirituality and prayer.  I don’t currently teach the program although helped to establish it a few years ago. I wholeheartedly recommend it for anyone looking to deepen their understanding and practice of diverse forms of Christian prayer. *Tending the Fire*, Christian Spirituality and Prayer, is a nine-month retreat program designed to explore diverse Christian traditions and prayer practices that deepen one’s spiritual journey and personal faith life. It meets semi-monthly on Tuesday afternoons from 1-4pm and will begin

It is a time of many endings and beginnings for me, a threshold space as I let go and embrace again and again.  I am making more room for my Abbey work and that fills my heart with joy.  I find it is requiring a lot of energy for me to be fully present, so unfortunately this space is getting a bit neglected for the time being In another week or two there will be a new design to this website which I am very excited about.  After four years it is time for some updating and a new look

I sink into the silence and stillness.  Solitude calls my name and shows me my reflection as a sacred offering.  Here in this place the sea asks me to embrace my truth once again.  The hummingbird invites me to sip holy nectar, the heron to stretch out my wings, the gulls to remember my flock.  In each shell is an epiphany, each smooth stone offers a revelation.  I watch and witness as the sun slowly makes her long arc across the sky and discover my own rising and falling.  The tides are singing of quiet miracles – like those which

I am honored to have my book Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements reviewed on the wonderful site Spirituality and Practice: “This well-done and quote-filled paperback forges deep and rich connections between the Christian faith and the natural world.”

Register for the Easter Season E-Course by the end of today – April 1st – and receive an early registration free bonus copy of What is Blossoming Within You? and your books will mail out tomorrow. If you order between April 2-11 your books will ship on Monday, April 12th.  Hope you will join the fun! WATER, WIND, EARTH & FIRE: Easter Season Five-Week E-Course Practice Resurrection •  Pray with the Elements April 18-May 23, 2010 Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same silent language, reminding the monk that he is here