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No Place Like This
After ten days of packing, cleaning and saying goodbye to our home of thirty years, Fred and I arrive back in Vernon, the snow globe of our lives shaken and set down again. What do I see as the snow swirls … Continue reading
This Summer
This summer, we aren’t camping and hiking in the mountains. We’ve booked a moving truck, signed endless documents, and will spend our vacation packing, loading and disposing of furniture. Then, of course, there’s the unloading and unpacking. This summer hasn’t offered us spacious days without … Continue reading
Letting Hope Land
I keep waiting for something to happen that will give my hope a place to land instead of letting hope land herein this precarious place. It seemed like a joke. The monk chased by a tiger comes to a precipice, grabs a vine and swings … Continue reading
Bumper Crop
Jesus told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, … Continue reading
A Cool Hand on My Forehead
Trust, I tell myselfas I cycle in the early morning mist.I need to trustI’ll receive what I need, know what to do. I can let go of my life and rest in Your love. I wish I could trust,rest,stop thinking, thinking,thinking aboutthe spinning tops I … Continue reading
Rabbit Trails
I follow any lead that will take me to the future I desire, hop down each trail, only to sit back on my haunches when it ends with the word: trust. You know what I need and are labouring even now to give me, to give every living … Continue reading
Disappointed
When old fears emerge,something in me is disappointed and wishes I’d get over it and move on. She (this part of me) has the wisdom of Jesus, knows the truth that will set me free, but lacks his compassionand patience. He finds … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, compassion, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Alfred Handel, Esther Hizsa, Ezekiel 34:11-12, Ezekiel 34:15-16, Good Shepherd, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, INTVGene, Lament, Living from the Heart, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Tony Hudson
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The Joy You Are
Conspicuous by its absence, I wondered if my fear of disaster had left for good but no that part of me revealed herself in an argument. Arguments are good for that. I had thought, since I survived my worst-case scenario, her angst would ease off. Yes, she says. … Continue reading
Rest in Love
Listen! The Lord, the Eternal, the Holy One of Israel says,“In returning and rest, you will be saved. In quietness and trust you will find strength.”–Isaiah 30:15 (The Voice) The sun is setting in the west And the birds begin to … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Mindfulness, Mystical, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Amelisa Resting, Donnie Ray Jones, Esther Hizsa, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Isaiah 30:15, Landkaartje, Living from the Heart, Matthew 11:28, Rhapsody of Rest, Sara Thomsen, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Sylvia Sassen
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An Everyday Pilgrim 