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Renaissance 2021 – A New Season of Growth for Spiritual Companionship

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Listen: Can you hear it? There in your heart. A vibration. A resonance. A song. It heralds a fresh start – a greening, a blossoming, an awakening. Be still: Can you feel it brush gently past your skin – like the first warm breeze of spring after the privations of winter? It’s the invigorating whisper of hope – an invitation to begin exploring […]

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On Hope, Art, Dismantling & Rebuilding

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by Kayce Stevens Hughlett Editor’s note: Kayce is one of the co-presenters of a new SDI webinar series ,called Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Companionship – Awakening the Creative Spirit. She”ll be presenting with Betsey Beckman. It starts January 7, 2021. Learn more here. The following post captures her affirming approach to art and the

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The Power of Intention – A Practice

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Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans died after a sudden illness in 2019, at the age of 37, and the world lost a courageous and compelling voice for truth-telling and all-welcoming love. This spiritual practice is inspired by the power of her intention to find and apply the balm of healing by standing firm for

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“My Neighborhood” – Writing as Spiritual Companionship

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My friend Anna and I have had a writing practice for over twenty years. First we meet on the phone and share with one another what we plan to write about. Then, hot tea on the table for each of us—it’s a tradition—we begin. After an hour or so, we speak again on the phone

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For Everything There Is a Season

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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to

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One Spiritual Director’s Transformation

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My first vocation was as a physician. For eleven years I studied and trained to get myself through college, medical school and residency. I had taken the tests, put in the hours and hours and hours in the hospital, learned the protocols of how to be a physician and how to operate within the medical

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Consoling Jesus

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By Angela Reinhart It was the last Friday of August 2015 and the first day of our spiritual companionship training program. It was an introduction day to both the program and to one another. Our class had three or four individuals just prior to the enrollment cut-off date. The class was not expected to go

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When An Ex-Catholic Hears Lake Michigan Pray The Hail Mary

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By Meisaan Chan It came as a surprise when I started hearing Lake Michigan pray the Hail Mary, as I had left Christianity a long time ago. I live in Chicago, across the street from Lake Michigan, who I have come to regard as a dear friend. I have a best human friend who is

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Peeling Carrots – A Spiritual Practice

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PRACTICE CHALLENGE Inspired by Anne Hillman and her book “The Dancing Animal Woman.” 1) Find a lovely large carrot. Top and tail it. Then peel it. Save peelings for compost. No compost? Toss them under a bush. The snails and slugs will take it from there. 2) Admire the freshly peeled carrot. Smell it. Run

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The Wall

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Truth is the ultimate spiritual companion. And honesty can transform foes into partners. This is a story that has been told as fiction, but its roots are in truth.… Sunrise is the most beautiful part of the day. First light. Don’t matter if there are colors like a picture postcard or it’s gray as water

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Renaissance 2021 – A New Season of Growth for Spiritual Companionship

On Hope, Art, Dismantling & Rebuilding

The Power of Intention – A Practice

“My Neighborhood” – Writing as Spiritual Companionship

For Everything There Is a Season

One Spiritual Director’s Transformation

Consoling Jesus

When An Ex-Catholic Hears Lake Michigan Pray The Hail Mary

Peeling Carrots – A Spiritual Practice

The Wall

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