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A New Word for the Year

Some years are more surprising than others and for me this one was particularly remarkable. When 2022 began in Phoenix, Arizona I had no...

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An Empathetic Witness

At a retreat recently with Beth Taulman Miller, she said these two words that have traveled with me in the last few weeks. The two words...

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Cultivating Confidence - Becoming the Beloved

This one is for most of the people I’ve come across in the last few months. For those who say “I could never do that”. For the one afraid...

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Divine Presence - in the learning and unlearning

A memory of learning to ride my bike came to me this morning. I remembered my purple hand-me-down bike with the white plastic woven...

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Take a Deep Breath...

There was a time when the only deep breaths I would take were as I sat in a doctor's office and they would place their cold stethoscope...

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"I Will Light Candles this Christmas"

I didn't grow up celebrating Advent. In fact, if you had asked me what it was I probably would have said "it sounds Catholic" or...

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My Story: The Slow Journey (aka #theslojourney) - Part II

For a quick recap to see what got me to part II - see part I. Since I had enrolled in a two-year program for spiritual direction, I...

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My Story: The Slow Journey (aka #theslojourney) - Part I

I remember coming out of my mo...just kidding - I won't start there. A few months ago I suggested to someone that it might be helpful if...