Three Christmas Lists with a Different Focus
Reimagining the familiar Christmas song, “He’s making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who’s naughty and nice…”
I see you. I hear you. I know you. I love you.
Julie Elliot writes about witnessing as one aspect of spiritual accompaniment
And she was there to listen
Trudy Grienauer reminds us we don’t need to be in any special position to offer our listening
Wings of the Wild Bird
Kathi Bentall and Margaret McAvity have published a book about emergent design in retreat leadership
That Tap on Your Shoulder
Technology has provided us with the perfect, totally accessible, with-us-all-the-time contemplative tool – our cell phones
The Mattering of Stories
Scott Swanson explores why our stores matter. They are in one sense the matter – the stuff – of a life
The Earth is Sacred
Antoinette Voûte Roeder writes passionately about our planet as an interconnected web
Being a Contemplative in the World
Janet Gear explores the big question, “How do I make a difference in the world?”
Living Trinity
Lois Huey-Heck suggests that our vulnerable earthly egos need our compassion and tenderness
Soft Place to Land: Group Spiritual Companioning
Kerr Mesner facilitates online groups that are loving and compassionate spaces of connection and community
Thanksgiving Blessing
In our consumerist society, we're bombarded with messages of not enoughness. This blessing from Cherie Westmoreland offers a different message of simplicity, presence, and love.
Being with What Is
“A Blessing for Perspective” by Julie Elliot with an update about SoulGuiding
Grief and Gratitude
Trudy Grienauer shares her hard-won wisdom about finding peace in endings
Found by Words: The Companionship of Poems
Tim Scorer writes about finding and being found by poems
Making my Way to the Sacred
Julie Elliot asks, “If you imagine God as a magnetic field, where are you drawn?”