Grounding + Becoming
A Soulspace Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what is already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight
What I need for the terrain ahead seems to be mysteriously sprinkled around me days, weeks, months, or even years before I need it. There is an inexplicable resonance—a knowing that doesn’t conform to my linear timeline and context.
I recognize it.
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it animates within me. I am known, and I know.
And still, I forget.
Practices draw me back to the center. I return. I drink deeply. I remember.
There is spaciousness inside to keep going.
Follow what draws you.
Notice what stirs.
What is recognition like for you?
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An Open Letter of Gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault
Saying yes to accompanying my dying mother-in-law, "beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing." A letter of gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault.
Two: A Meditation by Bruno Barnhart
A Wisdom Collage: Bruno Barnhart meditation read-aloud by Kirsten, an evocative image, and a cover of Everyday Life by Audrey Assad and Moda Spira. What catches your heart’s eye?
There Was No Contradiction in His Soul
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bore in his being what others might consider contradictions. Though it was not easy, he tuned the instrument of his life to the bass note sounding within him.
Visible Contradictions
It’s sometimes in the most unusual places that you actually discover the gift of the Beautiful. I always think that contradiction is what makes a person interesting. -John O’Donohue
What if losing one’s way from time to time is the way?
Has anything ever been more clear? Anything more obscure?
We Are Here: Creating a More Beautiful World
Last week, my friend Janice sent me a text about climate grief, imagination, and the longing for stories that might call us into presence and co-creation. As I replied, I wondered whether what moves hearts is not narrative alone, but the presence from which a narrative is spoken.
Faint Outlines of a New Possibility
We are alive, friends. It’s painful and exquisite. There is so much darkness. It’s real. Death is all around us. Unaddressed pain has mixed with power and fragmented us, but we are encircled by a Love that is permeating the darkness in the most creative ways.
Staying Present to the Absence
Like Amanda and Graham in The Holiday, I’m meeting this next moment with a heart as open as I can muster, taking a step into the unfamiliar.
Living the Questions: A Wisdom Collage
For much of my life, I sought answers before I began walking. I'm finding practices that support me in living into the questions.
Relax Your Eyes: A Spiritual Director on Falling Through Fear Into Love
I awoke from a dream two years ago with a playful image, a new way of orienting to my faith: Magic Eye Art.
Is There A Place?
Love is always a flow. How do we hold these powerful forces with care? Is there a place one can go to say "I'm on fire..."
Cynthia Bourgeault on Surrender: The Inner Ground of Becoming
A contemplative reflection on surrender, an invitation to deep listening.
Love says “Please Come Home”
How do we move in freedom, agency, and sacred responsibility — freedom for the flourishing of all beings and Love itself?
Life is Hard: A Spiritual Director on Holding Complexities + Contradictions
We all have had or will have moments like these when we get news that changes life as we knew it and leaves us wondering if we even really savored our “before.”
Contemplative Curiosity: Teilhard de Chardin on Truth Setting the World Ablaze
Truth has only to appear once in one single mind for it to be impossible for anything to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin