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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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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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Signs of Resurrection
On Sunday morning while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. –John 20:1 (CEV) The first sign of Christ’s resurrection came early.I recognized it when … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Easter, Mindfulness, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Dances of Universal Peace, Easter, Esther Hizsa, Fill your cup, gerbera, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, jeiline, Living from the Heart, Nan C. Merrill, Psalm 9, resurrection, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Vitya_maly
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Resurrection Is Personal
Resurrection isn’t just about living forever. It’s about living now and how we pick up our cross, go through death and become a new revised version of ourselves. Resurrection is personal. I remember the Easter I entered the tomb after … Continue reading
Scheduling a Time to Grieve
I told my spiritual director about the deep grief that overwhelmed me after my surgery and my grief returned quietly with tears. We listened –You, my spiritual director and I– to that tender part of me and heard what was … Continue reading
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Tagged Esther Hizsa, grief, Holy Saturday, loss, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon
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This Good Friday
Crucifixion by Ukrainian artist Natalya Rusetskain You take in all our suffering feel every violent act every hope destroyed each final breath. From the cross you see through our denial and delusions. No justification dares return your gaze. From the … Continue reading
Known
I am made of the earthand of its Creatorflesh and spirithuman, divineimpermanent and eternal. I will dieand before I dieI will have died and risen againhundreds of times. On the Saturdaybetween Good Fridayand Easter Sunday,I lay awake in the tomband … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Easter, Mystical, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Amancay Maahs, Colossians 3:3, Esther Hizsa, Faith, Fr Lawrence Lew O.P., Irene Fennema, Just right she sighed, Living from the Heart, Lovely Feet, Psalm 4:8, spiritual director Burnaby, spiritual director Vancouver, Steve Corey
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An Everyday Pilgrim 