Streams of Contentment
This month at the Patheos Book Club they are featuring Robert Wicks’ new book Streams of Contentment. I was invited to write a post in response to the theme of the book and participate in a conversation abotu contentment. Wicks’ book offers us an array of stories to illuminate this journey toward living a life of […]
Love has come for you
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Los Angeles for the day. Actually I was only in the “city of angels” for a total of six hours, long enough to get from the airport to the office of the Austrian Consulate where I could submit the paperwork I have been gathering for months now and apply […]
Closer than Our Own Skin (guest post from Beth Patterson)
Beth Patterson at Virtual Tea House offered to write this guest post for the Abbey in support of a new book being published (see below). I am delighted to host her words here. Last Christmas I had what felt very much like my own near death experience (or NDE as Beth writes) and I am very […]
“The Curves of My Longing”
This is a repost of a reflection I wrote for Bliss Chick in the fall of 2009. I have been studying German again in preparation for a possible sabbatical time in Vienna next year and these words have been shimmering for me: O die Kurven meiner Sehnsucht durch das Weltall” / “O the curves of […]
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 […]
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. […]