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A Pilgrimage “More than I Could Have Dreamed” – Spain, Ignatius and the Sunflower

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Editor’s Note: Darlene Carlson sent us this account of her experience on the SDI Journey to Spain (May 11-20, 2022). She wrote with the prayer that such pilgrimages “continue for more pilgrims.” You may learn more about SDI’s next pilgrimage to Spain, July 24-August 3, 2022, here. It follows the path and will have the […]

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“Peace Is Every Step” – My New Mantra

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“My work is loving the world.” – Mary Oliver By Linda Burson Swift It’s been a challenging season for our global community. There is so much happening in the world around us currently and it’s definitely not a time to disengage from life, rather there is a collective invitation to activism in whatever expression that

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Speaking the Elements of a Dream – Spiritual Companionship & Dreamwork

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By Haviva Ner-David I am the officiating rabbi at a ceremony at the ritual immersion pool that I founded and where I officiate ceremony and run workshops: Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul. Today I am officiating a conversion of a baby, long-awaited and born to a surrogate non-Jewish mother. The parents want

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Hymn to Hummingbirds

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By Sarah Lyon There’s a flutter of feathered activity at a point along the dirt path that rises above the shoreline close to Kits Beach in Vancouver. Two, sometimes three hummingbirds dart between a sap-laden pine and other bushes set back from this well-trodden path. It becomes part of my daily morning ritual to stop and

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Trees As Spiritual Directors/Companions

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By Dr. Jeanette Banashak Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps the singing bird will come. I must share with you a story about a particularly barren time in my life when I used a tree for a spiritual director. I learned so much that year because I listened in silence…Because it was

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“Coming Home” – Hearing the Call of Deep Listening

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By Angela Marie Gage This is the story of the moment – or moments – I felt the call to spiritual companioning and how heeding that call has changed my life. In my early 50’s, I was invited to attend a personal and silent retreat at a men’s monastery. I gladly accepted as it had

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Windows Across Canada – One Spiritual Director’s Journey

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By Joan Alexander It is early morning and the hotel room is dark. I pause for a moment at the window. The curtains are closed and the only sound I hear is the air conditioner as it blows cool air on me. Slightly disoriented – yesterday had been a long day of driving – and

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Listening to the Stranger – A Radical Proposal to End Divisiveness

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In our schools and in our homes, let’s teach our children how to listen and converse with new people to make them feel welcome. Let’s teach our kids how to ask others for their stories and how to receive them warmly and nonjudgmentally. Let’s start a paradigm where all new relationships seek the compassionate knowledge

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What is Spiritual Direction / Companionship? – A Dialogue between Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares and Eric Zimmer

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Editor’s note: We are grateful to Eric Zimmer and his podcast – “The One You Feed” for giving us permission to share a transcript from a part of his session with Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares, executive director of SDI. Eric is himself a trained spiritual director as well as a behavior coach and a talented

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Why Spiritual Direction? An Open Letter to Anyone Curious about Spiritual Companionship

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When I was a freshman at university, I felt deep-down that learning itself was a calling. But my ego refused to accept this and pushed me to use learning as a lever to achieve other objectives that were easier to equate with recognition and money. It has taken me this long – I’m now 62

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A Pilgrimage “More than I Could Have Dreamed” – Spain, Ignatius and the Sunflower

“Peace Is Every Step” – My New Mantra

Speaking the Elements of a Dream – Spiritual Companionship & Dreamwork

Hymn to Hummingbirds

Trees As Spiritual Directors/Companions

“Coming Home” – Hearing the Call of Deep Listening

Windows Across Canada – One Spiritual Director’s Journey

Listening to the Stranger – A Radical Proposal to End Divisiveness

What is Spiritual Direction / Companionship? – A Dialogue between Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares and Eric Zimmer

Why Spiritual Direction? An Open Letter to Anyone Curious about Spiritual Companionship

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