Reflections Blog
Welcome to our Reflections blog where spiritual directors, members of the Journey Center community and others from around the world share their thoughts and hearts with us.
BORDER COUNTRY: LIFE IN EDGE SPACES
Emily Conway April 3, 2024
won’t you celebrate with me By Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite ...
Read More → Holy Monday: Meditations on hair
Aluminé Andrew, Journey Center Christchurch, New Zealand March 20, 2024
John 12:1-9 The other day I was listening to the story of Mary anointing Jesus’ feet. Maybe it was the audio version of the gospels, or maybe it was my ...
Read More → Learning to Notice – how to be with ourselves and the world
Emily Conway November 28, 2023
What do you find yourself noticing, paying attention to? Do you tend to notice what’s going on outside of you or inside of you? Where do your thoughts, your body, ...
Read More → Welcoming Space
Emily Conway October 9, 2023
Recently, I’ve had an unusual (as in not in the last 20 years) amount of space open up in my life. I don’t know what to do with it. Right ...
Read More → Draw Alongside
Jennifer Andersson June 15, 2023
…Draw alongside the silence of stone Until it’s calmness can claim you. Be excessively gentle with yourself… (excerpt from John O’Donohue’s blessing For the One Who is Exhausted) The lockdown that ...
Read More → Well Come: change is in the air
At the beginning of any season there is a huge expectation of movement in a new direction, or continued movement in the current direction or maybe even, stillness. The common ...
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