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What to Bring
Alan Jones writes, “True spiritual direction is about the great infixables in human life. It’s about the mystery of moving through time. It’s about mortality. It’s about love. It’s about things that can’t be fixed.” Admittedly, this sounds terrifying. We want to be fixed. We need to be fixed but spiritual direction is not about fixing…
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What to Expect
When you come for spiritual direction, you can expect to find two chairs facing each other if we are meeting in person. At present, all of my clients meet with me on Zoom and so you’ll receive an invitation to my living room. It will be the same link every time and when you sign…
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A New Home for Holy Threads
As a military spouse, my family moves a lot which has made it extra sweet to call Germany home for four whole years. It’s the longest we have lived anywhere as a family. Or even when it was just my husband and myself. That four years includes the extra year we asked to stay but…
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A Poem for All the Holy Threads
When it came time to choose a name for my practice in spiritual direction, there wasn’t really a question for me. It was the threads of the story that shimmered to me. My mother was amazing with a needle and thread, but I never developed her skills. The threads I follow are those of sacred…
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A Poem for a New Year
I don’t think I really had words for why I don’t like New Years resolutions. I’ve made them. I’ve broken them. I’ve abandoned them and I’ve spent a lot of time resisting them. I didn’t really grasp why until I heard Kate Bowler speak with Oliver Burkeman this morning. It echoed with a lot of…
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How to Pray for Others
I have been dabbling in different formats exploring how we talk about prayer and what it means to pray. With all that is happening in the world, it is hard to find words that matter. It is hard to know what to do with ourselves and so I’m wondering how we create space. I revisited…
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Three Simple Grounding Practices for Anxious Times
When everything feels uncertain and unknown, we struggle to find the ground beneath us. We aren’t sure where to put our faith and hope and we feel lost in our fears and worries. Here are some simple practices that can be practiced anywhere and anytime you might find your fears rising to overwhelming. 5, 4,…
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