Visio Divina Practice For Receptivity
Engage in the contemplative practice of Visio Divina (sacred seeing): Engage in divine seeing by allowing your heart and imagination to enter into one of the images below as a sacred moment. As you gaze at the image, allow your awareness to gently take in both what you’re looking at and what’s going on inside…
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LoveFoward, The Practice of Receptivity
LoveForward: The Way of Receptivity As we explore Receptivity this week, I invite you to reflect in your JOURNAL: In what ways are you allowing yourself to be a vessel of love—receiving and giving love to yourself and others? In what ways are you practicing deep listening—to yourself, to others, to Mother Earth? In what ways…
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Introducing LoveFoward, My New Blog Series
Dear Friends, I’m excited to share my new blog series with you, LoveForward, exploring the seven qualities of living in Divine love that I describe in my new book, The Divine Heart. So, for the next seven weeks, I’ll be sending you a weekly installment that I trust will nourish your heart. I’ll also be…
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The Heart of a Spiritual Mother
From The Divine Heart, chapter on “Vulnerability” In the courtyard of St. Mary’s Elementary School, in Miami, Florida, I looked up at Mary, the Holy Mother, eight feet tall, made of alabaster. The smooth white statue watched over all of us and became my friend. Running up to her every morning for six years, I…
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Let Your Life Be In Conversation with Me
I discovered these seven ways of inviting in God’s love. Underlying each is a question similar to one posed by James Finley, another core faculty member of the Living School: “How do you give yourself over to that which is giving itself to you?” *Receptivity, Delight, Expansiveness, Acceptance, Vulnerability, Mystery, Gratitude — A quote from my…
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I’m Willing to Get Closer
“Our lives are made up of raw, “in-between” moments, intimate and unfolding, those moments when God catches us unadorned.” — A quote from my forthcoming book, The Divine Heart.
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