A refreshing take on Christian spirituality and living into the abiding, loving presence of the God-who-loves. Supporting you as you untangle from out-grown religious beliefs and experience and cultivate a deeper experience of the sacred within all of life, responding to the invitations of Spirit to co-create a deeper experience of meaning, beauty and well-being.
Love Inspired Spiritual Care
for the outsiders & outcasts, doubters & disillusioned, the heartsick & heretics.
For those who grieve & the brokenhearted.
For those who know, there has to be more.
"All I do each day is sit on the riverbank handing out river water.
If I do this well, in time you will notice the river."
Spiritual Direction - Soul Care
Spiritual Direction
A person's spirituality and relationship with God are uniquely intimate. Sometimes it can have its share of uncertainties, practical concerns, and nagging doubts. This doesn't make you unfaithful, just a human being living faith in real life. We all experience difficult seasons in our spiritual life, or we desire to go a little deeper or have some specific questions, ponderings, or issues we feel called to explore.
A Spiritual Director accompanies you as you discern where you are at, listen for invitations of the Spirit and respond to those invitations. A Spiritual Director is an experienced resource and companion who can provide reflective insight and help you identify practical steps forward (deeper) as you continue into the things of God holistically as a part of everyday real life.
Grief & Loss: Healing your Heart
Michael meets you where you’re at with a heart-centred and action-based approach that will help you take the steps to heal your heart. Michael can support you from a trained, experienced, and if you wish, a spacious spiritual perspective as you address the losses you have experienced from a death, divorce, changes in health, or any of the many different kinds of losses that can result in feelings of grief.
Guys Grieve too.
There is a stubborn myth in our culture that men don’t grieve and that men aren’t allowed to express emotions of sadness, tenderness, and heartbreak. Grief is cumulative. If we don’t deal with it, we will find it seeping into other areas of our lives, often in messy ways.
Did you know there are over 40 different kinds of loss that we can experience?
"Love is more original than sin."
You may have heard the phrase Open & Relational Theology more these days, but maybe you aren't sure what it's all about. The following is a good summary of Open & Relational Theology based on the ideas of Thomas Jay Oord. It also does an excellent jo...
What is Love? A warm, exhilarating, passionate feeling? Make no mistake, love can sometimes be experienced with these emotions. But as anyone who has truly experienced love can tell you, it can also be experienced as sorrow, grief, fear, and pain. Sometimes,...
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It's going on 22 years now since my deconstruction began. It began with a deeply intimate encounter with God during a prayer time in my living room on one weekday morning. I share the details of this encounter in my book Becoming Love. I look back over the yea...