Soul care or self-pity?
Perhaps at the root of our longing is simply poor discernment of the needs of our own soul.
Renewal
A Spirituality for My Soul’s Middle-Ground
I’m finding my soul’s middle ground. I bellow the fire of my spirit by smooring the fire in the hearth.
My big prayer experiment, continued
“The mysterious geography of prayer must begin in the cracks and fissures of the human spirit before it gets the added benefit of the babbling brook heard just outside the monastery gates.”
Jet fuel, candle wax, Bilbo Baggins and Pentecost
What, exactly, is the Spirit here to do? To help us cope with this crazy life? Or, help us live to prevent life from becoming crazy?
Skipping Lent
Can’t I get by just fine without following Jesus and the Spirit into the Lenten wilderness at all?
Lent- Making Way Toward the Center of Your Heart
Lent is about letting go of our faux selves~ in order for God to resurrect the true self.
Returning to the Presence
I am so grateful that it is also so easy to center, to remember, to return to the safety of God’s arms.
Isolation in Community
We may be surrounded by a great crowd and yet feel completely alone.
Give me (I)s to see
El-roi, the God who sees, brings our renewal by means of others. They provide our clearest vision of who we really are.
Will the Real Self Please Rise?
What’s with all these “Selves”?