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A Simple Practice to Break through the Protective Shell around our Hearts

In our last post: A Simple Practice to Discover how Deeply you Love Yourself, we discussed the struggle many of us face in loving ourselves. The simple act of looking at ourself in the mirror and saying “I love you” is often challenging, because the concept of unconditionally loving ourselves, exactly as we are, isContinue reading “A Simple Practice to Break through the Protective Shell around our Hearts”

A Simple Practice to Discover how Deeply we Love Ourselves

When we struggle to love ourselves, all of our other relationships – romantic, familial, friendly – will be troubled as well. Here is a free, simple practice to help us assess our relationship with our own heart. No, it’s not an online questionnaire with a bunch of multiple-choice answers that never quite express the nuancesContinue reading “A Simple Practice to Discover how Deeply we Love Ourselves”

Perspectives on the Abbey: A Thousand Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground

“God is not a question to be answered, but a mystery to be experienced.” How do you all relate to this sentiment? In my time at Abbey of the Redwoods, I have experienced a soul-nourishing community that affirms that everyone must discover their own unique path to the Divine. As for myself, I ultimately believeContinue reading “Perspectives on the Abbey: A Thousand Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground”

Cruciformity: Cruciform Theology, Christology, and Reciprocal Kenosis

Part 1: The Strangeness of the Particular ___________________________________________________ “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation For by Him all things were created, both in heaven and on earth“ – Colossians 1:15-16 ___________________________________________________ The Christian faith is deeply strange. And certainly, given that it is an outpouring of human imaginationContinue reading “Cruciformity: Cruciform Theology, Christology, and Reciprocal Kenosis”

Meditation on Hope vs Faith

The Smiles of the Bathers The smiles of the bathers fade as they leave the water,And the lover feels sadness fall as it ends, as he leaves his love.The scholar, closing his book as the midnight clock strikes, is hollowand old:The pilot’s relief on landing is no release.These perfect and private things, walling us in,Continue reading “Meditation on Hope vs Faith”

Embracing Love for our Experience: Loving Negative Emotions

Embracing Love, Part 2 Last week we discussed Embracing Love for Ourselves: Overcoming Guilt and Shame as the first step in embracing Love and joining in the New Spiritual Awakening that is rippling through humanity. We’ll talk more about loving ourselves in the future, but if we’re struggling to love the current experience we areContinue reading “Embracing Love for our Experience: Loving Negative Emotions”

Embracing Love for Ourselves: Overcoming Guilt and Shame

Embracing Unconditional Love, Part 1 Last week in our post on the New Spiritual Awakening, we discussed the wave of awakening that is rippling through humanity, a rebirth of consciousness based on Unconditional Love. I gushed on and on about the wonders of Love and the hope it brings for humanity. But you might beContinue reading “Embracing Love for Ourselves: Overcoming Guilt and Shame”

Ma-le’l Dunes 6-9-21

After my online Meditation Conversation on Thursday, I saw some intriguing clouds on the horizon as I was driving home. I had just enough time to stop at hope, grab my camera and jackets, and zip down to Ma-le’l Dunes. Boy was I in for a treat 😊 A cloud formation to the north overContinue reading “Ma-le’l Dunes 6-9-21”