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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 feel like I’m up to 97, 98, 99, 100 in Double Dutch and the blunt end … 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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In Christ, I Rise
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.— Colossians 3:3 Hidden in Christ, I rise. I leave the tomb of freedom and emerge awakened to Love. For an eternal moment, I tasted the completeness, the exquisite settledness of myself … Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Holy Week, Mystical, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Bram Cymet, Center for Action and Contemplation, Colossians 3:3, Easter poem, Esther Hizsa, FarbenfroheWunderwelt, Fresh Bread, graced discontent, James Finley, resurrection, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Turning to the Mystics, Wheat
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Hidden with Christ in God
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.–Colossians 3:3 (NIV) She is dead but not lost. She is hidden with Christ in God–consummated whole one decomposing and becoming soil. The grain of wheat fell to the earth and died. In the tomb of the earth, she is … Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Holy Week, Mystical, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Acts 17:28, Center for Action and Contemplation, Colossians 3:3, composting, Easter poem, Easter Saturday, Esther Hizsa, Holy Saturday, James Finley, Jason Baker, John 12:24, soil, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Tina Reynolds, Turning to the Mystics
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With Christ, I Die
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.— Colossians 3:3 In the silence, I close my eyes and die. I release all I love, all I desire, all I wanted to do, all I wished to become, all that is not resolved. My … Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Holy Week, Lent, Mindfulness, Mystical, Poetry, Prayer, Reflections
Tagged Acts 17:28, Centre for Action and Contemplation, Colossians 3:3, Crucifixion of Christ, death, Earl, Esther Hizsa, extinguished, fear of death, Good Friday, James Finley, Mechthilde of Magdeburg, Psalm 23, Silence, silent prayer, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Titan, Turning to the Mystics
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Another Disguise
God comes to you disguised as your life. –Paula D’Arcy Dust to dust is not nothing to nothing as if dust were not precious, as if returning to dust meant our lives didn’t matter, as if we could disappear without a trace, as if God could … Continue reading
Posted in Creation, Lent, Mindfulness, Mystical, Poetry, Prayer, Reflections
Tagged Bryon Lippincott, Dust to dust, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Jenny Uhling, Living from the Heart, Paula D'Arcy, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, The Silence Within, Thich Nhat Hanh, Village School Cambodia
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Room to Be
“Look at all your plants!” my guest said. “They’re so healthy.” Before I could stop myself, I recounted the story of my rare cactus who died because I misunderstood her. Later, as I walked to church, I noticed how I’m quick to balance … Continue reading
Posted in community, compassion, Lent, Mindfulness, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Ecosystem, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Living from the Heart, Long loving look, Peggy Riley, Scott McCracken, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Teeter Totter, Walter Burghardt
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An Everyday Pilgrim 