“We’ll always leave the light on for you” my dad said to me before I pulled out of the driveway starting my journey back to college. His words stayed with me. These were some of the warmest words he had ever said to me. Like a vote of stabilizing confidence blessing me into the wider… Continue reading “We’ll Leave the Light On For You”
Blog prompt: What anchors keep you centered as the beloved? Hope. Broader perspective. A return to center through intentionally meditating on feeling hopeful, easeful, beloved. And choosing thoughts through the day that support this. See story example below. What happens when you lose sight? It gets dark real quick! Yesterday evening I was sitting… Continue reading Was It A Sign To Remember My Belovedness?
I’m thinking about the prompt in two ways. What happens to cause me to lose sight of whose and whom I am and what happens when I lose that vision? I lose that vision when I separate myself from people. Sometimes that looks like doomscrolling or looking for all the details about the most recent… Continue reading Fire Extinguishers in a Time of Flood
I struggled a bit with writing this post, because when it comes to the tension between the urgency of injustice/conflict, the desire for tools, and the need for personal transformation, I am kind of all over the place. It’s almost as if I am sitting on two sides of a scale at the same time.… Continue reading Sitting in the Two Extremes
“Who must I become as a leader in order to accompany my church in her pilgrimage from the comfort of power and control to the vulnerability of community?” This Journey of Hope continues with Module 2, and something is beginning to shift. I am starting to recognize the presence of a weight that I have… Continue reading Loosening My Grip
