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my hand, my prayer beads by Wayne Stratz And so it begins: a weekly series of images and thoughts from seven days of Silence at the Je...

  One of the seven desires I carried with me from my week of silence this summer is jazz in my church. It may have been born the night...

I met with my spiritual director shortly before our vacation. I told her I had a plan. The problem with telling someone your intentions i...

I am not so hot with sitting still and so I entered my studio at 10:00 this morning. At that time seven pieces had been foiled. By 11:05, ...

art by Anne-Lise Hammann For weeks I wondered, do I want to do my usual thing ~ linger after work then head off to Owen J Roberts Hi...

I had just shared my intention to creatively keep the hours to the group that had gathered for spiritual direction, when a question w...

as seen at my church A week or so before I left for the retreat I began a novel that is broken into sections called such things as Mati...

Translations by Daniel Ladinsky What appealed to me in this poem is many a thing:  it made us laugh and reminded me of my favorite...

Translations by Daniel Ladinsky GOD'S ADMIRATION God's Admiration for us is infinitely greater than anything ...

Back in August, in the midst of silence at Wernersville , well, in the midst of the one conversation I had that particular day, my spiri...

One of my best friends at work was thrown for a loop not so long ago. It was clear it had been thrown as he spoke to me about the dea...

We returned to work on Monday to get the promised, but secret if not hinted at big news... our residential program will be closing down as ...

last night... I wrote a post which I can't quite get myself to publish, maybe later. I turned on fans, opened windows, put on my mas...

If I had done it the quick way, then I would be nearly done, however, I have barely begun. Ignatius's spiritual exercises can be done a...

I am behind in grading my students work, I scramble to be prepared for teaching, my garden at home has been neglected, and I am falling furt...