Follow Love like a candle, like a star, like the only light in a midnight wilderness … Follow Love like a treasure map through dangerous lands far beyond your comfort and wildest dreams … Leave everything but Love behind. Follow Love like the sound of running water in the desert. When you’re lucky enough to […]
Pure Guidance: A Thomas Merton prayer for when you feel lost …
Have you ever found yourself praying for clarity on the next step you should take in life, without receiving the answers you’re hoping for? I sure have. The more clearly I intend to surrender my life to God’s will, the more I am asked to relinquish control of my choices. On my spiritual […]
Spiritual Journey: It’s okay to ask for help
Do you really need to lug that boulder up the mountain all by yourself? Shoulders sagging, spirit wilting in the hot sun … What would happen if you put it down for a moment and called out to your Father for help? What would happen if you opened your heart in prayer? Do you believe in […]
Spiritual Journey: When You Reach the Limits of Your Human Capabilities
When I allowed my heart to open so far, so fast that it shattered into a million tiny pieces – I didn’t realize I was making the smartest decision of my life. My love exploded into the universe like fireworks vanishing into thin air, and I experienced the gaping emptiness of my broken humanity – […]
Spiritual Journey: When you need to step out on faith
Through prayer, God paves gorgeous paths of graces, just for us – but we still have to say yes to Spirit promptings and follow Angel whispers- all the way into a wilderness we don’t understand … No matter how beautifully He lays the path before us, we’re the ones who need to take it – one […]
Embracing the fullness of my messy, miraculous life
This is the road of authenticity – one day rocky, another smooth. It’s easy to love the sand squishing between our toes, the hot sun warming our souls … storms – are another story. One way or another, we need to learn to believe in the Light that never stops shining behind clouds the Light that radiates […]
Spiritual Journey: When You Don’t Know Which Way to Turn
When we can’t see the path ahead, God is in the fog. Once we realize how the Light lives in our hearts, only fear is impossible. No matter how strong we are in our relationship with Our Creator, we all feel confused on our spiritual journey sometimes. With so many opinions and options swirling around, […]
Deeper life: Responding to adversity with faith
When the dust of this wild life settles and you can finally see clearly – when you look in a mirror, will you like what you see? Will you shine brighter than you did before the storm? One thing is for sure: in this world, we will face obstacles. In spite of our best intentions, […]
Simple Faith: Learning to trust
I didn’t want to take your hand. I didn’t want to follow you. Again and again, I called You back into the comfort I believed in. But there was no stopping You. In the end, I realized I couldn’t truly live without You. In the end, I ran after You – past everything I’d known, through my fears […]
Spiritual Journey: When we need to overcome a fear
When we’re about to do something brave, the heaviness we feel is the weight of all the spirits we’re about to lift … Is there anything more inspiring than seeing someone face their fears to do something truly courageous? Doesn’t it kind of make you want to be brave too? Researcher Brene Brown says “Courage is contagious. […]