Tag: Spiritual Direction
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Poker Face: Spiritual Direction Lessons from Celebrity Traitors Finale
Spoilers! As a Spiritual Director the Traitors Finale was fascinating. Body language is so important. It is often what we see in our guests as much as what we hear which reveals to us where they really are, even when meeting via zoom. As I watched these two men my heart went out to them.…
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Pink and Glitter: Discovering Art Journaling as a Creative Path to Prayer
Art journaling combines creativity and spirituality, allowing individuals to express their faith through artistic processes. The author shares personal experiences from retreats and online workshops, highlighting the therapeutic nature of art journaling. By utilizing everyday materials, one can explore emotions freely, transforming play into meaningful prayer and self-discovery.
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We’ve Only Just Begun: Creating My New Online Shop for Retreat Gifts
Ugh! Like many creatives I do not enjoy the technical side of life. I love writing retreats and creating my Retreat in a Box gifts, but have struggled with the fine details of creating my online shop in order to enable more people to experience them!
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Soul Searching
‘But what would I talk about?’ New directees often tell me that they aren’t sure what to talk about, and then spend the next hour telling me about all sorts of things occasionally pausing for breath. Sitting in silence can also speak volumes, yet most of my Spiritual Direction guests only briefly linger in this…
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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Instead, spend some time listening to your own heart, spend time listening to the God who truly loves you. Perhaps instead of guilting yourself into cutting things out of your life, be loved into identifying and increasing the blessings until there is no room left for those things you would usually seek to eradicate with…
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Knit me together…
Hidden within this skein are all sorts of wonderful craft projects as yet untold, hidden in its depths. The yarn is so fine, almost like a thread of silk, but also strong, and as I played with it dreaming about what it might become, I noticed how the colours change. Each length of yarn is…
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Blissful
One first time guest chose not to dive into the arts materials, or to pick up some mindfulness knitting, or read a book, but gathered a hand crocheted blanket in her arms and headed out to the paddock to lie in the sun and dream. As later we gathered to share in a picnic supper,…
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Dreams and Visions
Throughout this evening retreat in The Quiet Garden on the borders of Hampshire and Wiltshire, we will be given permission to daydream, to holy doze, or even take 40 winks!
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Street Party
This weekend is one of the biggest parties that the United Kingdom has seen: never before have we celebrated a Platinum Jubilee.
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Are We in Business?
Building any business during a pandemic is complicated, if not impossible. I haven’t yet made a loss on any retreat, which is good news, I have only had positive feedback, and have even had repeat custom. As a ministry this is good, Godly, growth, but I have to account for it as a business.