by Karen Treat | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Karen Treat. Twenty some years ago, my husband and I hiked the state of Oregon. Daily we were amazed by the miraculous works of God–in the mountains, the water sources, and the people we met on the trail. What was important in seeing God was keeping our eyes...
by Kay Vander Vort | Apr 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]by Kay Vander Vort. Click to Register: Margaret Silf – Finding God in All things, September 2016 I was...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Sheila Laughton. There is an odd attractiveness about a desert, a place so hot or cold that life itself is a struggle. Perhaps it is because you are forced to live in the moment, on guard for the slightest change that signals danger—a raging sand or snow storm, a...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
by David Rothstein. Lent brings me a heightened awareness of suffering, my own and the world’s. Sitting in morning meditation recently, negative thoughts drifted in: this world is truly an exile from the freedom and peace of the spirit world. Thinking of the...
by Tom Allen | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Tom Allen. February 10 is Ash Wednesday. It is the day on which Christians remember that from dust we came and to dust we shall return. To be an Alzheimer’s care giver demands finding life while sitting in the ashes. I helped Julie change her clothes. She had on 2...
by Guest Blogger | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Catherine Michaud, CSJ. Preparing for my January 9 program at Loyola titled, “Faith Stages and the Spiritual Life,” I discovered SPIRAL DYNAMICS®, a program that provides a framework for understanding the “process of human emergence and how living systems evolve,...
