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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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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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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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Found
As I return and rest, I feel gentle hands unfolding a crumpled part of me, smoothing it to the edges. Now She’s softening the creases, straightening the bent back corner, and tracing my words with Her finger. I feel Her reading my thoughts, holding the whole story.I … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Lent, Mindfulness, Poetry, Poverty of Spirit, Reflections
Tagged Always With Me, Crumple, Esther Hizsa, experiencing God's love, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Jan Evans, Living from the Heart, Paul Zach, Psalm 139, Rod Janz, SoulStream, Sowing Seeds of Hope and Resilience, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Thomas Levinson
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Making Light
You are the light of the world.–Matthew 5:14 We must let go of outcomes. Suffering is caused by not accepting things as they are, not admitting we are powerless to control the future. I’m learning to accept my powerlessness. I try to notice … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Creation, Justice, Lent, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Early Rays, Esther Hizsa, How the Stars Get in Your Bones, Ignatian Spiritual Excercises, Jan Richardson, Living from the Heart, Not Enough Darkness, SoulStream, SoulStream Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, Spiritual Director North Okanagan, Spiritual Director Vernon, Thomas, weye
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An Everyday Pilgrim 