Living in Wonder & Mystery

Wednesday Wisdom: Living in Wonder & Mystery. The Christmas season is a time of wonder and mystery. It reminds us that love and compassion are being birthed in our lives and in the world around us, even in the midst of sorrow. This mystery naturally brings us to silence. What if we allow ourselves to…

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Hospitality is About Who We Are

It was a misty, humid evening, as our group gathered in the Victorian building of the Spiritual Life Center, here in San Francisco, for the first of the three-part mini series on Radical Hospitality. Sitting in a circle, we began our evening with a few moments of silence, focusing on the breath, and allowing ourselves to…

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Faith is an Opening

Wednesday Wisdom: Faith is an Opening. “Faith is our small but necessary offering to any new change or encounter,” writes Richard Rohr in The Naked Now. I have been reflecting on this thought for the past week, as I continue to respond to the changes I am encountering in my new work situation and with a…

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Wednesday Wisdom: It’s All About Living

I am immersed in reading Richard Rohr’s book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See. Richard is one of the wisdom teachers in the Living School, which I started in August. I wanted to share some of Richard’s thoughts in this book, as food for thought: Prayer is about changing you, not about…

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Practice Hospitality with Yourself and Others

Wednesday Wisdom: Hospitality: A Way of Being In a few weeks, I will be doing a mini-retreat on the topic of hospitality. Two things have inspired me to explore this topic more in depth:  my personal experience at a Benedictine monastery, and my work as a spiritual director. In the rule of Saint Benedict, it is…

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Wednesday Wisdom: Taking A Break

Wednesday Wisdom: Taking A Break. Wednesday Wisdom will be taking a break for the rest of the summer. Please enjoy previous posts on this site; there’s a lot of content here that I hope will be encouraging and supportive of your sacred journey. During this hiatus, I will be discerning how I am being called…

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