Category Archives: Growing Deeper
Resources for cultivating a life-long journey of a deeply personal relationship with God and more meaningful relationships with others. Rooted deeply in a paradigm of love and acceptance, you continue in your unique Spirit-inspired spiritual / faith journey. Employing the insights of ancient and contemporary thinkers, poets, prophets and sages, you are provided with tools to develop your own unique relationship with God in a way that encourages healthy faith in the day to day of real life. Discovering abundant life and meaning which is consistent with who you were created to be.

O Love, Divine Love

O Love, divine Love, why do You lay siege to me? In a frenzy of love for me, You find no rest. From five sides You move against me, Hearing, sight, taste, touch, and scent. To come out is to be caught; I cannot hide from You. _____________ If I come out through sight…

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

Once upon a time, a Sufi mystic was searching for something on the street outside her small hut. The sun was setting, and darkness was descending, as few people gathered around her. "What have you lost? What are you searching for? Perhaps we can help," they said. "I have lost my needle." The mystic replied. One of the people said, "Well, the sun…

"Thin places" is a 5th-century Celtic Christian term used to describe geographical places where it seems that space between Heaven and Earth are uniquely thin. The Thin places could be in a building, a cave, on a mountain top or by the sea shore. It is the place where we become acutely aware of the…

Being Acceptable to God: Holiness in Real Life

One of the greatest pleasures in my life is working with wonderful and diverse people. It is so incredible to see how the Father works in each life. Far too often I am afraid when I get to meet some of these folks, it is because they are experiencing some sort of crisis in their…

"If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you." - Jesus Who the Son sets free is free indeed! I so love this scripture from John 8. Christian freedom has been long explored,…

The following is a piece by a young woman, Jacqueline Warner, just prior to passing away from Cancer. The Valley of the Shadow of Death can be the fertile ground for some profound insights. It can cut through the crap and cliche's getting to the real heart of life, and provides some deep perspective on…

There’s a lot of mystery and often a lot of confusion when we start to speak about one's “True Self.” Depending upon your religious background, this can be relatively normal, completely bizarre and for some quite dubious. However, in the sense of healthy Christian faith, the pursuit of the authentic self is simply discovering and…

St. John of the Cross, a Carmelite priest from Spain coined the phrase the “Dark Night of the Soul”. It is a poignant metaphor used to describe a phase in a person’s spiritual journey which is marked by a sense of loneliness and desolation. Desolation can simply be defined as a lack of the felt…

Black Holes, Jesus and the Victory of God

I am a bit of a sci-fi geek. I grew up watching Star Trek, Star Wars and just about anything with aliens and outer space. One of the coolest phenomena which provided great plots and excitement was the mysterious Black Hole! A Black Hole is a phenomenon in outer space that has a gravitational…

The following is a prayer by Thomas Merton found in his book entitled Thoughts in Solitude. Thomas Merton was an influential 20th-century Catholic author, popular spiritual writer, poet, author and social activist. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky, Merton was a prolific writer penning over 60 books and many essays.…

September 3, 2017
Conspiring for Wholeness

I was walking with a friend, and we were talking about life and its challenges. We were talking about how sometimes we can get driven along by the frenetic pace of life, lose our balance and be tossed around on the currents of circumstances, feeling like we are adrift and aimless. And other times, like we are being bashed against Continue Reading...
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May 13, 2011
Help Stop the Spread of the Email Insanity

Some days I want to declare email bankruptcy! I was recently swallowed up by a series of epic emails as a part of a conversation regarding a Board I serve on. It was a 5 way conversation with everyone "reply all"ing and it was pure cyber mayhem! We have since reformed our email etiquette but if you are like Continue Reading...
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October 3, 2012
Answers Amidst the Struggle

There is a collision that occurs within a kingdom heart, often unseen beneath the surface; it occurs in the spaces between empty knowledge and honest experience, fusing the two into something useful. Life is born in this expanse. I believe Paul once referred to it as a “renewing of the mind”. It is a process that bewilders most of us. Continue Reading...
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O Love, Divine Love

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

Discovering Thin Places

Being Acceptable to God: Holiness in Real Life

Freedom: Making Freer Choices

Life is Not Too Short

Excavating Your True Self

Light at the End of the Dark Night

Black Holes, Jesus and the Victory of God

Blind Faith – Merton’s Prayer

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My Blog – Articles

Conspiring for Wholeness

Help Stop the Spread of the Email Insanity

Answers Amidst the Struggle