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Falling in Love
Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way … Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. –Joseph Whelan, SJ I need to find and fall in love … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Creation, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Alfalfa, Alice Walker, Church of the Wild, Esther Hizsa, Falling in Love, Grey Canal Trail, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Joseph Whelan, Living from the Heart, Michael Major, SoulStream, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Victoria Loorz
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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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