Grounding + Becoming
A Spacious Wisdom Cross-Pollination
There is a current between knowing and unknowing. It will carry you.
Each one is troubled by the ultimate questions. And no one else’s answer can satisfy the hunger in your heart. The beauty of great questions is how they dwell differently in each mind, how they root deeper than all the surface chatter and image. How they continually disturb. Your deep questions grow quickly restless in the artificial clay of received opinion or stagnant thought, and if you avoid this disturbance and try to quell these questions, it will cost you all your peace of mind. Sooner or later, every one of us must come to our contemplative longing and gain either the courage, the recklessness to begin our own contemplative journey.
-John O’Donohue
Moving Through a Dark Night of the Soul: A Spiritual Director Holds Space for Obscurity
A “dark night of the soul” is a season of obscurity in the spiritual landscape – spiritual disorientation – when we can’t seem to access what we once knew.
Living Centered at the Intersection of Trauma & Spirituality
“You’re able to begin to notice that God speaks to us, God comes to us in our experience, that God becomes known; God becomes flesh in our everyday experience.” - Jonathan Merritt
Please Tell Me What To Do: The Gift of *Not* Receiving What I Thought I Wanted in Spiritual Direction
My spiritual director wouldn’t give in to my pleas for a narrow way.
When In Doubt, A Lectio Divina Podcast
Todd is a spiritual director (and a friend of mine!) that provides a weekly opportunity to engage in the spiritual practice of Lectio Divina.
I Like You As You Are
This episode is food for the soul. I find it deeply resonant with my image of spiritual direction. It is my favorite podcast episode of 2020.