Spiritual Director – How did I get here? – Another Leg of the Journey
Another leg of the journey to this current adventure called spiritual direction has been decades of going to school in the land of compassion. Exploration. Acculturation. Learning the language and behaviors. Willingly going native. (according to Merriam Webster: to...
Spiritual Director – How Did I Get Here? – One Leg of the Journey
One of my mentors in this adventure called spiritual direction described three essential elements in the unfolding director-directee relationship: educator, accompanier, and witness (thank you, MM). I have continually focused on my responsibility to keep widening and...
When We Can’t Find the Words—But Need Words
Thank you, especially to Gregory Bateson and Milton Erickson for one of the insights that changed my life—language shapes perception. How we talk about something or someone creates the context for discovering and relating to it’s mystery. The reality of...
Tuning into the Hope
Yes, I know we are engulfed in scenes of apocalyptic-scale catastrophes across the globe. Fires. Floods. Populations displaced and at risk. War. Hunger. Covid and other diseases running rampant. The economy is growing/the economy is shrinking. All of this is...
Spiritual Autobiography – Transparent to the Transcendent
Some years ago I attended a workshop taught by Bernadette Roberts, a contemporary Christian mystic. She made the offhand comment that she wished there were no autobiographies written by mystics and saints. Why? In her opinion seekers read these and compare and...The Book
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