Welcome! We’ve come to the edge of a month’s passing and another’s beginning. I love the opportunity of these liminal, edge spaces to pause and notice my soul’s bearings and look for how God showed up in my life. In my monthly-ish email, I offered these questions to reflect on: Where did you experience light? …
There is a word in French that captures the visceral feeling of our communal and individual upheaval as we cope with the pandemic’s presence and other challenges: Bouleversant. It is a topsy-turvy word, one with motion and disorientation embedded in it. I find myself thinking of it often as I encounter the shifts in my …
I lay on the itchy carpet, my knee swiveled across my body and my arms splayed out to either side like a fallen cornstalk. A deep breath found the sharpness of a clenched back muscle and I shivered into the pain. “Feel the feeling.” My right eye trickled, the salt trail hot, then cold as …
Perhaps you’ve heard the term mentioned, but just what IS “spiritual direction”? In some company it is whispered with caution, with others it’s with an assumed air of “you know what I’m talking about,” but most people’s first few encounters with the term leave them puzzled. Let me clear the air! It is a spiritual …
