Sacred Cairns: Markers Along the Inner Path
There are images that quietly accompany us through life, gathering meaning as we change. The image of a cairn — simple, weathered, and humanly made — is one such symbol , holding memory, passage, loss, and orientation in a single form. Cairns as Markers On the home page of my website is a picture of a cairn. Cairns are piles of stone placed one on top of the other to mark key events such as battles or burial sites, to mark trails, or to remember sacred and important moments.
Describing Spiritual Direction : Voices from a Living Tradition
A sacred conversation held within the life of God. Spiritual direction is often described today in careful, well-established ways — as a contemplative, supportive accompaniment that helps a person attend to God’s presence in their life. These descriptions are not wrong. Yet they are not the whole story. Across Christian history, spiritual direction has been understood, practised, and named in many different ways, shaped by context, temperament, theology, and human need. Rath
Awakening Love
Just back from attending a refreshing and inspiring interfaith retreat day led by Maura Sills. She spoke of the numinous quality of love and wisdom that is at the centre of us all. And how awakening to, and resting prayerfully and consciously in this depth within us, not only helps us but all those to whom we relate in life. I was very struck by how easily we can live our life separate in our own skin, sometimes never really experiencing a sense of deep connection to others
Spiritual Landscapes: Places of Journey and Transformation
There are so many landscapes we pass through, internally and externally, as we journey in life. I find that the outer and inner are often brought together when reflecting on the geographical and spiritual journeying of God’s people in the Old Testament, and how these places relate to our lives and experience now. Garden Places There are lush gardens such as the Garden of Eden, and the garden that forms the backdrop to the lovers in the Song of Songs — an almost restored par
Spiritual Journeying
'In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we are going. In another sense we have already arrived.
