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Authenticity: Part 1

One of the things I consistently hear from readers of both this blog and my Reflections issues that go out each Monday is how much you appreciate my authenticity. And it’s true, I write and speak about things that many other folks might not want to talk about. Authenticity I have written extensively about my experience […]

Mastering the Mess

Kerry Pitt is a master of the mess of life, a gentle and challenging healer, a deep listener, and a seer of souls. Her openness in her work to help others learn from her experience is extraordinary. I am delighted to offer a guest post from this master! Mastering the mess—That’s not something you are […]

Where is Faith?

Well, I wrote Reflections about love. I wrote yesterday about hope. I’ve painted myself into a religious corner here, one that I welcome; I need to write about faith. What does faith mean to you? I grew up with the traditional Roman Catholic definition of faith:  Intellectual assent, and belief in things unseen. Particularly intellectual […]

Love and Fear: One without the Other?

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Oh, oh, oh… What if this? What if that? What if I can’t? What if I don’t? What if they don’t like me? What if they don’t respect me? What if I’m the fraud I’m afraid I am? I struggle with imposter syndrome. Do you? I struggle with worrying I don’t have anything to offer. […]

Why Does Discernment Need Confirmation?

I was posed an interesting question about discernment and confirmation this week after a friend watched my FB Live video on the subject. I had, in the short video, talked about looking for confirmation among one’s wisest mentors and in the place one finds the Sacred. My friend, I’ll call her Lila, wrote and asked […]

Kiss Me with the Kisses of Your Mouth

Each of the following quotations is central to my understanding of the yearning I have for God Herself. And that is what I have, a yearning. Yes, a seeking. Yes, a deepening. But a longing and yearning, the attraction and pull to a lover by the beloved. When I talk about “spiritual seeking,” sometimes I […]

It’s You!

Spiritual Seekers with a Desire for Deepening That’s you, I bet! If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, I bet it’s you. I attended a call today about how to describe and attract “our people,” “our tribe,” and what I would say are the people I feel called to serve. It […]

No to Hatred Because Yes, Black Lives Matter

What follows is a modified piece from a Facebook post I put up a couple of days ago. As I will be on vacation over the next two weeks, I thought and felt it important to have something up here that responds to the horrible injustice of our time. I believe I have told you—and […]

Vulnerability and the Deeper Well

I’m listening to the Wailin’ Jennys sing “Deeper Well” and thinking more and more about the needs for clean, accessible water around the world. “I need water from a deeper well,” they sing over and over again. Even those of us who have clean water to drink and bathe in need the water from a […]

Want Discernment? Here’s How!

I am reading Big Magic, the creativity book by Elizabeth Gilbert. And I am reading A Spiritual Handbook, by Father James Galluzzo, the founder of the Urban Spirituality Center. Both books are leading me to think in new ways about discernment. Or perhaps I just mean deeper ways. The Galluzzo book has the following quotation […]