A ongoing collection of haikus + photos. Check back for updates!

Does summer seem far away to you? Many of us have returned to fall routines and some of us question just how busy we want to be. Joanie Peters brings thoughtfulness and a fresh perspective to our relationship with work and play

Linda McLaren, minister at Jasper United Church, reflects on her experience of the wild fire that destroyed her church and home in Jasper, BC

Julie Elliot writes about healing while on retreat. When we step away from the busy outer world, there is an alchemy that happens. We're able to listen more deeply for inner guidance 

During a spacious retreat on Bowen Island, Ailsa slowed down enough to enter the world of the busy bees. Her poem likens the bees' activity to aspects of spiritual accompaniment. Such an original idea!

Peggy Allen's grief took her out to the land. She shares how comfort and peace were gifted to her there

Dale Bially shares his thoughts about "hunger" and what it might reveal about our needs

Katherine Murray imagines being a spiritual director to the earth and also having the earth as her own spiritual director

Cherie Westmoreland offers a fresh take on what Valentine's Day could mean and how much more the word "heart" could represent

Sarah Lyon does a review of her life from an “ecological” viewpoint as she considers her relationship to her environments

Pádraig Ó Tuama shares a liturgy that helps us appreciate darkness in a new way

Sheinagh Saraswati Anderson writes about nature healing heart, mind, and soul

Cherie Westmoreland shares a blessing of gratitude

Julie Elliot writes about stepping out of busyness and into a different way of being

Tim Scorer writes about the importance of meaning-filled ritual

Brian Pearson writes about our need for deep listening – the kind that hears not only the old worn-out stories we tell ourselves but also the new stories trying to emerge

Vickie MacArthur shares an encounter with Thich Nhat Hanh that impacted her in a lasting way

Can aging – with all its losses, changes and letting go – be a catalyst for new awakening? Barbara Richards answers that question

Joanne Scofield helps us appreciate a wintery day with fresh eyes

Lesley-Anne Evans is a poet with a contemplative heart. May her poem on silence, mystery, and wonder be an inspiration for 2023

Reimagining the familiar Christmas song, “He’s making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who’s naughty and nice…”

Julie Elliot writes about witnessing as one aspect of spiritual accompaniment

Trudy Grienauer reminds us we don’t need to be in any special position to offer our listening

Kathi Bentall and Margaret McAvity have published a book about emergent design in retreat leadership

Technology has provided us with the perfect, totally accessible, with-us-all-the-time contemplative tool – our cell phones

Scott Swanson explores why our stores matter. They are in one sense the matter – the stuff – of a life

Learn about becoming a spiritual director and more

Antoinette Voûte Roeder writes passionately about our planet as an interconnected web

A hope that’s stronger than wishful thinking by Jan Richardson

Janet Gear explores the big question, “How do I make a difference in the world?”