Grounding + Becoming
A Spacious Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what’s already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight. Stretch into what only you can become.
There is no limit to what Wisdom will shine through to reach us. Silence, nature, art, music, words, and connection are some of the prisms through which the invisible may become briefly visible to our subtle senses.
What we will need for the terrain ahead is mysteriously sprinkled around us days, weeks, months, or even years before we actually need it. There is a resonance we cannot quite explain—a knowing that doesn’t seem to conform to our linear timeline and context.
We recognize it.
Father Bruno Barnhart distills the essence of Wisdom:
“If we require a definition, let us call it knowing: a knowing that is personal, experiential, and tending toward union with that which is known.”
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it ripens in us, as us.
You are known, and you know.
Wisdom practices help us fine-tune our senses and cultivate inner stability to be present to reality, even when it is hard.
Follow the threads that draw you and listen for what is stirred within.
Lean Your Heart in Close, A Poem + Collage
Friends, I mustn’t tell you the way,
but lean your heart in close;
I'll cover my whisper.
Tuning in to the Beautiful, a Soulspace Newsletter
As we slow down to explore subtle inner experiences weaving through daily-ness, fleeting felt senses of a different quality shimmer.
Collaging Signals From a Creative Universe
When the gut-punch of anguish hit me hard, I collaged wisdom that called to me in songs and images.
Tending Our Souls Collection, Part One
As social media is changing, algorithms are making it difficult to get the word out about what we are creating. I want to spread the word about cool things that are available to support us in this vital work of tending our souls.
What is the opposite of a great poem?
I’ve been carrying an evocative question as I continue this work of “becoming.”
We Are Here: Artifacts of Presence
We have talked at length about what’s been shifting in our sense of the world and our inklings about why we are here. In this offering, there’s a deepening.
Exceedingly Alive to the Complex Weave
In the return,
in the silence,
a permeable fractal
perceives Source.
Listening From the Depths: Bibliomancy as Spiritual Practice
Feeling a sense of inner stuck-ness? Here's a simple spiritual practice for deep listening.
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.
Making Everything I’ve Received Flow Again
There’s a communal nature to wisdom. Our journeys overlap — sometimes in physical life, and sometimes outside of it — words and presence across time and space.
Listening for Inner Wisdom Artfully
Here’s a spiritual practice to support you in listening for inner wisdom by creating and being curious with wisdom collages.
Staying Present to the Absence
Like Amanda and Graham, 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.
Contemplative Curiosity: Neil Theise on Complexity
A 10-ish minute spiritual practice -- bringing curiosity to a quote on complexity by Dr. Neil Theise.
I Think I Get It Now
At the sudden realization of my error, my heart sinks; my face burns hot and red.
A Letter to Christian Parents: A Spiritual Director’s Hope For Our Collective Healing
When my child told us she was gay, I was internally and externally disoriented. Here's how we found our way into love, healing, and flourishing.
Holding Space + Savoring
I’m holding space for our tender hearts, heavy with tensions and contradictions, the places we feel unseen and in between.
Can you still reach your stubborn hope?
You can't see beyond the next step, but you know what it feels like to let go. It’s time to sense into that knowing.