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Unfailing Love
We gathered and celebrated,blessed the Earth with Mom’s ashes, blessed each other with who she waswoven in our words, (“Okay”, “Oh, come on!” and “Oh well”)baked in the bread, the Tia Maria squares, the Linzer Torte,savoured in the Pinot,grateful for … Continue reading
Maybe It’s Enough
Father James Martin asks, “What happens when you pray?”Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. replies, “I wish I knew.“—The Spiritual Life Podcast You’re here, all the time. everywhere– in birdsong and silence, budding leaves and dead branches, a fist pump from a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, crucifixion, Esther Hizsa, Father James Martin, Golden Day Lily, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Living from the Heart, Matthew 6:28, Sam Weng, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, The Spiritual Life
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Finding Us
What did I hear in that note that stunned me and sent me into the sock drawer, consumed with anger and hate? I heard: You are not enough, just as I had begun to skip along trusting that I was. As I walked with … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, compassion, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Ban Galbasi, Doris Pailthorpe, Ernest Thompson Seton, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Living from the Heart, Plum leaves, Raggylug, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon
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Double Dutch
It’s bad enough when awareness comes in a look or a wondering with space to soften and say farewell to what I thought was real. But when I’m up to 97, 98, 99, 100 in Double Dutch and the blunt end raps my knuckles, stuns my … Continue reading
Posted in community, compassion, False Self, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged awareness, Beatrice Murch, crucifixion, Double Dutch, Esther Hizsa, Felipe Bastos, Friendship, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Living from the Heart, Rumi, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, The Guest House
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As If I Wasn’t Dying Inside
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.–Psalm 22:14 (NIV) Jesus, on the cross, poured out like water bones out of joint heart turned to wax, … Continue reading
Posted in community, compassion, Creation, Easter, Lent, Poetry, Prayer, Reflections
Tagged Birds on a Rainy Day, Celtic Blessing, crucifixion, Deep Peace, Esther Hizsa, Golden Moth, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Karl Jenkins, Living from the Heart, Macomb Paynes, resurrection, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Sylvia Sassen
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A World Filled with Love
He showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, in the palm of my hand, and it was as round as a ball. I looked at it with my mind’s eye and I thought, “What can this be?” … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Helpful Images, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Colin Hansen, Esther Hizsa, hazelnut, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Julian of Norwich, Living from the Heart, Milky Waters, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Virginia Wieringa
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Awakening
I wake again with the weight of my world on my shoulders. I choose to get up, to do my knee strengthening exercises, to put drops in my aging eyes, to make coffee, and sit in the quiet with You. Ah, there it is. A constriction in … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged An Everyday Pilgrim, Catherine of Genoa, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Living from the Heart, Monteregina (Nicole), My deepest me is God! --St. Catherine of Genoa, Richard Rohr, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Waking Up, Water is the essence of wetness
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