Wednesday Wisdom. Notice a Moment of Living Grace. This month, I continue to focus my blog posts on Living Our Graces–inviting us to take time to notice our own spiritual insights, and acknowledge our personal spiritual wisdom. We all have deep and rich lives, in which God is alive and at work every day–in…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Reflection is a Practice. This month, I continue with the theme of Living Our Graces. As a spiritual director, I am always seeing the value, and the gift, when people pause and reflect on the presence and action of the Spirit in their lives; when they take time to recognize…
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Wednesday Wisdom. Living our Graces. This month, I will focus on living our graces. It is now the Easter season: a time of wonder, delight and surprise. And I am finding that to fully come into this season, we need to remember and integrate the graces of lent. We tend to…
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Wednesday Wisdom. The Profound Quiet of Mystery. I continue to allow the theme of quietness to reveal itself to me this month. What I am discovering is that quietness is a way of dwelling in my heart. It is not always being physically quiet, or silent, but it is a…
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Wednesday Wisdom. The Quiet Gift of Comfort. Today, I’m facilitating a “Comfort Circle” with a group at the School of Applied Theology in Berkeley, so I’ve been steeped in reflecting on comfort as preparation. What is comfort? How do we share it with others? How do we give it to ourselves? At the elementary…
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Wednesday Wisdom. The Quietness of Faith. I continue to explore daily quiet moments, listening for them, noticing them, and discovering them in the midst of my busy days. Lately, I have been praying with icons, inspired by the book: Transformed by God’s word: Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina, by…
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