Pause a while at this week’s Poetry Party
Are you in need of a holy pause this week? A few moments of poetic beauty and refreshment? Then I encourage you to pour yourself a cup of tea and stop by here to linger over the incredible responses to this week’s prompt about “going home.” You might be with the poems in a lectio […]
Being at Home
I have just returned home to Seattle after two amazing weeks of teaching soul care practitioners how to bring creative expression to their ministries of compassionate presence. 35 spiritual directors gathered in Louisiana and Mississippi for introductory workshops and then another 10 gathered on the shores of beautiful Lake Michgan for our Awakening the Creative […]
Invitation to Poetry: Going Home
Welcome to the Abbey’s 53rd Poetry Party! I select an image and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you […]
What is your holy direction?
Invocation Let us try what it is to be true to gravity, to grace, to the given, faithful to our own voices, to lines making the map of our furrowed tongue. Turned toward the root of a single word, refusing solemnity and slogans, let us honor what hides and does not come easy to speech. […]
The Transforming Power of Lectio Divina: A Deeper Look at the Four Movements
Christine Sine at Godspace so graciously invited me to reflect on how lectio divina has changed my life and view of the world. Here is a brief except from The Transforming Power of Lectio Divina: A Deeper Look at the Four Movements: After almost twenty years of practicing lectio divina, I see the world differently. […]
New Review of The Artist’s Rule by The Anchoress
Elizabeth Scalia who blogs at The Anchoress has a lovely new review of The Artist’s Rule. Here is an excerpt from her review on my exploration of monastic hospitality: There, I encountered a notion I’d suspected for a while — that difficulty in welcoming others as Christ is rooted in one’s difficulty in welcoming the […]
Art, Delight, and the Spiritual Life (a guest post at Anam Cara)
I am delighted to have a guest post up at Anam Cara, the spiritual direction site run by the delightful Tara Owens. Tara asked me to write about “art, delight, and the spiritual life” and here is an excerpt: When Tara asked me to write about art, delight, and the spiritual life it was really that […]