How Our True Self Grows

Good morning... Our book for the semester is fascinating. Self to Lose, Self to Find: Using the Enneagram To Uncover Your True, God-Gifted Self by Marilyn Vancil offers mind-blowing wisdom, stretching us in intriguing, new ways. Join me now as we ponder an amazing "seed" analogy which tangibly describes the interaction between our Adapted Self (the self to [...]

By |2024-02-08T00:57:19-05:00February 7th, 2024|Authenticity, New From Old, Organic Growth, True Self|

This C.S. Lewis Quote

Good morning... We began our semester unpacking the deep meaning of this C.S. Lewis quote at the beginning of our book, Self to Lose, Self to Find; Using the Enneagram to Uncover Your True, God-Gifted Self by Marilyn Vancil. "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He [...]

By |2024-01-29T09:18:20-05:00January 29th, 2024|Authenticity, Death And Resurrection, God's Plan|

Will I Choose Awe Today?

Good morning... From our list of questions posed to begin this brand new year, her spirit was drawn to the final one shared, "Will I choose awe today?" God swept in, creatively bolstering her response, connecting her to the inspiring article below. Please join me now, as together we walk in awe. ****** An Awe Walk by Dacher [...]

By |2024-01-10T10:16:15-05:00January 10th, 2024|Authenticity, Everyday life, God's Plan, Gratitude|

SHOW UP With Your Gifts

Good morning... I love reading the wise words of Howard Thurman etched in the handwriting of my friend. "You are the only you that has ever lived; your idiom is the only idiom of its kind in all existences, and if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend [...]

By |2023-12-19T10:36:50-05:00December 20th, 2023|Authenticity, Community, Everyday life, God's Love|

Aging Into Your Handcrafted Life

Good morning... In our Friday morning group, we hosted a surprise birthday party for one of our friends. Classmates brought gifts and notes, balloons and a homemade cake. Along with briefly discussing our chapter, we created sandtrays, forming an expressive world with miniature symbols in colorful sand, verbally describing how it feels to gather weekly with our loyal [...]

By |2023-10-16T02:48:41-04:00October 17th, 2023|Aging, Authenticity, Everyday life|

Bring The Gift Of Silence

Good morning... She read to me the Rachel Naomi Remen quote above and down, down deep it sank. Wisdom settled like a skipping stone at the bottom of my murky sea. "Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or [...]

By |2023-10-04T00:14:57-04:00October 3rd, 2023|Authenticity, Everyday life, Silence And Solitude|

We Are A Work Of Art

Good morning... "Good writing, the adage tells us, is when we read something we've always known but never been able to put into words," explains Padraig O Tuama, the inspiring author of the delightful book we are reading for our Sunday afternoon monthly study, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World. Beside this profound sentence, I [...]

By |2023-09-20T00:35:24-04:00September 18th, 2023|Authenticity, God's Plan, Spiritual Gifts|

Under All Our Layers

Good morning... After we shared deeply about the pain she was enduring, one friend prayed for another friend over the phone. Capturing the compassion in my journal, I jotted down many of her vulnerable words. Now in the middle of the night I revisit my notes, piecing together this heartfelt prayer. Dear gracious God, Raw and in process, [...]

By |2023-05-03T03:22:11-04:00May 3rd, 2023|Authenticity, Healing, Prayer|

What Makes You Come Alive?

Good morning... A few Sundays back, we circled up in a dear friend's lovely living room for our monthly book discussion of Anchored In The Current. Right now in the wee hours of the night, I am drawn back to some of the words we read aloud from page forty-one, words first spoken in the baccalaureate address Howard [...]

By |2022-02-08T09:00:05-05:00February 8th, 2022|Authenticity, God's Plan, True Self|

How Might I Worship?

Good morning... In our women's Advent retreat schedule, at 5:00 pm Saturday night there was a communion mass to which we were all invited. Privately, my spirit wondered, "What time is sunset?" I love to do a photo shoot with the setting sun whenever I am at Ignatius House Retreat Center, so I googled "When is sunset in [...]

By |2021-12-15T21:45:31-05:00December 16th, 2021|Authenticity, God's Plan, Listen|
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