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I Love You. I’m Listening.
We cannot live our lives constantly looking back, listening back, lest we be turned to pillars of longing and regret, but to live without listening at all is to live deaf to the fullness of the music…. Listen for him. … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Mindfulness, Prayer, Reflections, Resource
Tagged Best Friends, Desmond Tutu, Esther Hizsa, Frederick Buechner, Insight Timer, Julian of Norwich, Loving and Listening to Yourself, New Year's, Sarah Blondin, spiritual director Burnaby, spiritual director Vancouver, Tara Brach, The Sacred Journey, Thomas Leuthard
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I Will Love. End of Story.
A pharisee once asked Jesus which commandment is the greatest. Jesus said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The … Continue reading
Posted in Lent, Reflections
Tagged Audrey Watson, Cirque Peak, Esther Hizsa, Frederick Buechner, jamelah e, Matthew 22:36-39, Peter Hiett, Philppians 1:6, Progressive Housing Society, Secrets in the Dark, spiritual director, spiritual director Burnaby, spiritual director Vancouver, St. Stephen the Martyr Anglican Church, Third date with immortality
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God Isn’t Always Trying to Teach Us Stuff
“If God speaks anywhere, it is into our personal lives that he speaks…” – Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation God knows our thoughts even before we do (Psalm 139). And having heard all our thoughts, God must … Continue reading
The Dead Alternator Speaks
Frederick Buechner once said that if he were to sum up in a few words the essence of everything he was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be this: Listen to your life. … Continue reading
Posted in Ignatian Spirituality
Tagged alternator, Anne Yungwirth, car trouble, Christian, community, Frederick Buechner, L'Arche, Mazama, Stanley Hauerwas
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