My friend Eileen wrote a well-stated response to my last post, about why it can be so hard to look back on our lives and create a Life Map: Revisiting the sometimes damaging choices others have inflicted on us, and even the poor choices we have made ourselves, can be genuinely painful. I suspect this…Read more Instantaneous Process
Map It
When I first posted about Stepping into the Story, there was quite a bit of interest. Then I sent out a questionnaire to each of those people, as follows: Pre-Life Map Questionnaire (click it even though it's not highlighted, and you'll download the Word doc.) Suddenly there was a lot of alarm. I did mention…Read more Map It
Stepping into the Story
The Pilgrimage is taking the next step! For almost a year now (with maybe a few weeks off interspersing, so I could write new studies) the Online Spiritual Formation Group has been reading the Bible together in a private Facebook group, sometimes "discussing" (in the comments) what we read. We've talked about the Pilgrim Psalms…Read more Stepping into the Story
Literally
I'm fairly certain the least consistently redeemed aspect of my personality is the part of me that feels a compulsion to correct things--primarily people's grammar, spelling, pronunciation, punctuation, and general word usage. Example: recently a professional peer of mine sent me some glowing feedback, at the end of which she said, "you have literally gifted…Read more Literally
A Reunion with Periwinkle
Over the weekend, I am delighted to report, I (and six others) was graduated from Holy Conversations, the two-year spiritual direction training programme offered by the Anglican Diocese of New England. We all met on Friday evening at our supervisor's house, where we had a lovely, relaxed dinner together. Then the next morning we reconvened,…Read more A Reunion with Periwinkle
Word Down*
But...what if Jesus actually did write something? Something more, I mean, than whatever He famously and mysteriously wrote in the dirt...
Word Up*
If Jesus is God the Son of God, doesn't it make sense to give more weight to the words that the Bible tells us He actually spoke, than to other parts of the Bible?
