Posts by Colette Lafia
What is Stirring in Your Heart?
Last week, over forty women gathered at Mercy Center, on a foggy Friday, for a Women In Transition day retreat. Together, we engaged in reading poetry, making art, and contemplative sharing. We also enjoyed tea and fresh scones together. I had the privilege of guiding the group in making clay sculptures as a way to reflect…
Read MoreAllowing Life to Unfold: Living Surrender #5
This week, I wanted to share a beautiful response I received recently after I did a book reading and talk at the beautiful Santa Sabina Center. Sharing my book continues to be a journey of surrender and surrendering into the presence of others, allowing the book to live. Colette, I look forward to having your…
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Finding Trust During Change: Living Surrender #4
This post is part of a “Living Surrender” series I am writing as a way to live into my new book, Seeking Surrender, with my readers. Surrender happens in our daily life, the one we are actually living. It’s not a spiritual ideal for saints and holy people, but rather a living and dynamic force that…
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Feeling Lighter: Living Surrender #3
Recognize the call to surrender everywhere: in your daily relationships, in how you handle your limitations, in your work challenges, in the ways you care for your family, and even in the simplest of things, like how you step into a cool swimming pool and plunge into the water. The other day, as I was…
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Writing as a Healing Process
The other day, I came across my notebook from the first time I was at the Abbey of Gethsemani in 2003 when I met Brother Rene. In this quick watercolor, I wrote: Can I stop chasing God? Faith. I realize that something in me was already sensing that my orientation to myself, my life, and to God…
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Stay Connected to Yourself: Living Surrender #2
Our everyday encounters create the platform for surrender. Throughout the day, we can bring the qualities of surrender—trust, acceptance, compassion, and release—into the way we respond to life. It’s our relationship to what’s happening that forms the cornerstone of our experiences. I offer you this sacred practice today as a way to live surrender, by…
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