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 idea of seasonal adjustments is that sense that there is change, there is something unexpected ahead. The start of a new year or a new …
One of the great gifts of Life, is that we get to fall in love over and over. It’s like the parable we often refer to as “The Prodigal Son.” We may wander far from home, but we get to return again. Not only that, we get to experience returning home again. We get to …
I was sitting in my favorite chair today not thinking about anything in particular when I noticed that a patch of sunlight was in the wrong place! In the mornings over the summer the sun reaches beyond the tiles and onto the carpet. Today, it barely warmed the tiles. Ah, a change in the light. …
My grandma died a couple of years ago, she was 100 ½ years old and died peacefully at her own kitchen table. She sat down with a teapot full of tea and passed away before it was empty. When her things were being packed up I was asked if there was anything I wanted as …
On the feast of the Annunciation, I began to think about Mary. We know the story, we revere her for being the Mother of our Lord. But when Gabriel brought her the message and the request, she said, “Yes, I’ll do it.” What was she saying yes to? I’m reminded of unwed mothers all over …
I invite you to be present to Psalm 23 in an imaginative way. Before beginning, take in a few deep breaths to quiet and center yourself. I invite you to read the psalm a first time and just to take it in. Psalm 23 The Lord is my Shepherd. I will have everything I …
One of my favorite people in the world is someone I never met. Well, in person that is. I did meet with him on a daily basis as a child on our family’s black and white television. He welcomed me into his neighborhood and home, introduced me to his friends and neighbors, and told me, every day, that I was special and worthy of love.
I listened to my massage therapist the other day as she listened to my body, its messages guiding her warm hand to pull and push and knead muscles, tendons, ligaments… and spirit. Ouch! I say. It hurts there… and there… and over there, too! Shall I let up on the pressure? she asks. And I …
Early on in her book Wild Mercy, Mirabai Starr suggests, “Perhaps you, like I, have associated spirituality with rising above the human condition rather than with consciously embodying it”. ‘Hmm,’ I think as I pause to highlight the thought. I find myself coming back to it several times until I finally decide to explore the idea through writing. …
One of the nine pathways we offer here at Journey Center Online is an invitation to encounter the Holy in beautiful Creation… and that is just the experience I was blessed with yesterday! I joined Michelle’s Wild Communion group in the morning; two of us called in from Northern California, one from Oregon and one …
