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Humour is sometimes the best way to get a truth under the skin.  Here are two quick quotes that someone sent me today.  I think they are both funny and poignant…. “There will be no Homeland Security until we realize…

Someone sent me this poem, a bit tongue in cheek, but also with her desire as she came for spiritual direction. I find it a very compelling poem.  It touches so much of how we posture ourselves and the tenacity…

Spiritual Direction training emphasizes the importance of deep listening.  Here is a beautiful short quote that says it so well. “Cultivate the art of deep listening in which you lean toward the world in love.  All things in the universe…

Brent Unrau is in our spiritual direction program.  He is always on the loose, ready to come up with amazing images for just about anything!  He sent me this quote entitled  Advent Stanzas and I asked him to introduce it…

Most circulating emails give me the creeps, but here is one worth pondering! WARNING……WARNING: ADVENT VIRUS Be on the alert for symptoms of inner Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to…

An Advent Quote:  “How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul?  Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court…

P.T. Forsyth, Regent College Publ., The Soul of Prayer   “Most of the difficulties of prayer are our own making. We get more interested in ourselves than in God. We get absorbed in what is or is not happening in…