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Up at 3:00am. On the road by 3:30am.
Dark - cold - country roads - black ice - no specific directions. U-turns and navigating with wrong info. But at 5:35am we see the vehicles and arrive safely.
Why are we doing this? What is the reason?
We stand in the dark waiting. Not sure what to do. The sh...
“Our spiritual journeys are not ours alone,” writes Ann Kline. That sentence opens a doorway into a deeper truth: we are not solitary seekers, but participants in the ongoing flow of God’s own prayer.
In group spiritual direction, we listen, not just for ourselves, but for each other. We ask not wh...
I love mountains—the long love affair God has with humanity is manifested through many biblical stories that feature mountains: at Mt. Horeb, Elijah encounters God in sheer silence; at Mt. Sinai, Moses receives the Torah from God; at Mt. Olive, Jesus prays and sweats blood before being arrested; and...
“Fiction is crisis.” I was reminded of this Jonathan Mayberry quote in a recent article in
Writer’s Digest. Ryan Given Cleave wrote how fiction is all about the character’s messy
life. You don’t write about a bunch of happy people having a lovely day. “Instead, it’s
about embracing tension, chall...
