by Peggy Flynn | Mar 28, 2023 | All, Spiritual Direction
It’s Lent—the six weeks leading up to a remembering of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. I was at Mass at a local Catholic church and found myself seeing something familiar in a whole new way. Most Catholic churches have representations of the...
by Peggy Flynn | Sep 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Aug 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Jun 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction, Studies
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Aug 27, 2021 | Aging, All, Spiritual Direction
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 30, 2021 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth, Spiritual Direction
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...