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Word Shift (part two): busy to full…receive instead of take…
A few months ago, I shared another new thing: the practice of word shift. I was introduced to this practice through spiritual direction. Spiritual direction has been a place of opening up my life to “God’s wide open spaces. His expansive grace, love, and abundance.” Although this new thing began taking formation some time ago, it seems fitting for the renewing ways…
Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study
This month I invite you to join me in the Scriptures with an open heart to what God longs to reveal to us.
This is a suggestion of a slow reading, prayerful and responsive study for God to form, renew, and transform our hearts and living…
Compassion. Leadership. And Fiction.
Picking up these two books has been renewing, transforming, and a gentle challenge.
Two themes of yearning in my life for growth and greater awareness that I was really struggling with and praying into. Through these readings, I have found clarity, gracefulness, and deepening of trust in my calling and journey in faith.
If you are just curious, or struggling with leading, or burnout…
Guest feature
I thought nothing of this Pieta when I saw it in the Church of St. Giles off a busy side street in Prague.
I documented it anyway.
It was later in the evening after editing the shot and after going to bed that I awoke from a shallow sleep, haunted. This image was on my mind and under my skin. The agony depicted in this shot didn’t take immediately…