Today is about communication, skills, insight. Recognition of where I’ve been, where I am, and this spiral journey we each traverse in our own timing. More than 39 intersections revealed themselves in 15 hours, all while the power of precise words rippled in me. I thought of the gaps in…
To live a meaningful life of compassion and service, we need good guides! If we want to grow into our potential as vital, authentic human beings we need one another. Our ancestors, elders, friends, and the world itself teach us how to live. John O’Donohue said, “A friend is a…
Hello is becoming a generous, living prayer in me. Waking up to the present time in order to be a welcoming presence to myself and others is an act of hospitality, and at times, a bumpy path of mystery and emergence. My son died nearly ten years ago, when he…
Listen: A Seeker’s Resource for Spiritual Direction, April 2015, 9.2 –Pegge Erkeneff, 2014 Awaken! The time is now for each of us to become fully alive to the remarkable experience of living, in spite of heartache and messiness, stagnation, and lack of vision or resources. We must each wake up…
It was my long week of anniversaries: an adoption date, a wedding anniversary for a marriage that ended in divorce, and the eighth anniversary of my teenage son’s death by suicide. Annually, when this week cycles, I have learned to lean-in and ride the emotional wave, taking care of my…
Cultivate Spiritual Awareness Mentors teach and guide us. I know this to be true: when the student is ready, the teacher will come. Perhaps you do too. Who are the important people who have arrived in your life at distinctive times and places? At this time—are you seeking to learn,…
I sit facing my computer screen, inches from a large window. My heart thunks. Outside a shadow moves. A moose peers at me. Vividly tall, she is furry, sturdy, six feet away, eyes glued in stillness. Her nose twitches. I catch my breath, meet her gaze. Seconds pass. Does she…
Last week I spoke at a church in town. They asked me to talk about grief and loss, for ten to fifteen minutes—make it personal. An icy, snowy night, by 7:00 p.m. it had been dark three hours. My stamina was in the single digits, and I was cold. A…
Do you think that meditation and prayer eventually encompasses all of our emotions, thoughts, experiences, and patterns of being in the world? Do you believe that prayer can simply begin when we yearn, notice, or respond in some way, to someone, or something? What does this thought evoke in you:…