Spiritual Direction

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with

God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference

"The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities f

“A courageous heart will go forth and engage with life despite confusion and fear.”

— John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

Anything down right “good,” anything that shakes you with its “trueness,” and anything that sucks you into its beauty does not just educate you; it transforms you.

• Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond

More a Verb Than a Noun

The resolution comes in the Trinity, the outpouring of love in one direction. This is the Mystery of God who is always beyond any concept we can imagine. The mind cannot capture the Trinity, for the Divine can only be known in relationship. God is relationship itself: "Christians believe that God is formlessness (the Father),

God is never any object to be found or possessed as we find other objects, but the One who shares your own deepest subjectivity - or your ‘self’. We normally called it our soul. Religion called it ‘the Divine Indwelling.’

• Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond

The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.

• Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond

Jesus (a good person) still had to die for the Christ (the universal presence) to arise. It is the pattern of transformation . . . What has to die is not usually bad; in fact, it will often feel good and necessary.2

Can you see the necessity of healthy and mature religion? Why else would you take the jump from a safe, comfortable sense of self into