By Annette Darity Garber Shh.. listen. The trees have something to tell us and you cannot hear them if your shoes or your mind are running down the street toward tomorrow. So please,for the sake of tomorrow,for the sake of today(which is gone tomorrow),for the sake of your soulif not for the trees,listen. You want […]
The Trees Have Something to Tell Us
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This is your chance to ask questions about the practice and process of group spiritual direction and get answers from respected author and spiritual director Dr. Roslyn “Roz” G. Weiner. SDI Press published Roslyn’s book Seeking in the Company of Others: The Wisdom of Group Spiritual Direction in late 2021. Soon afterward, Roz led an
ROZ’S CORNER: A Monthly Q & A on Group Spiritual Direction Leer Más »
By Maryanne V. Tuite It was a warm June afternoon in 1984 as I arrived at the Brothers’ House of Prayer and rang the doorbell feeling a little nervous. All that dissipated once I met Brother Jack Mostyn.* His attentive demeanor was warm and welcoming, and he had a gentle-looking face that radiated kindness when
The Gift of Spiritual Direction – 38 Years with the Same Director and Still Going Strong Leer Más »
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
Speaking the Elements of a Dream – Spiritual Companionship & Dreamwork Leer Más »
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
Hymn to Hummingbirds Leer Más »
By Beth G. Raps, PhD And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. “Late Fragment” by Raymond Carver In A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989 You have a calling.
Follow Your Calling, the Divine Curriculum at Work Leer Más »
Editor’s note – This heartfelt account comes from the Christian Catholic tradition. But the story of hearing the call to spiritual direction after being the beneficiary of deep listening is one that many spiritual directors and companions will appreciate. By Margaret Meisen When preparing for marriage, my husband-to-be and I heard a woman religious talk
How I Found the Calling of Deep Listening Leer Más »
By Joan Alexander A peer can mean someone who is the same age or same social status as you, like a colleague or an associate. But to peer can also mean to look closely, with curiosity. Both of these definitions apply to Peer Supervision in Spiritual Direction. In this article I will talk about the
The Value of Peer Supervision in Spiritual Direction…and Warm Pie! Leer Más »
By Dr. Janice Lundy, DMin, MPC Many years ago when I was training to be a spiritual director, the kindly Sister who led the program made it very clear to us that spiritual guidance over the telephone was not acceptable. More specifically, that good spiritual guidance could not happen unless two people were face-to-face and
Long-Distance Spiritual Direction – Benefits, Blessings and Drawbacks Leer Más »
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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