Spiritual Fulfillment with Rev. Arvid

Hi friends. I usually don't promote other people's work, but I'm making an exception. Karen Vyner-Brooks is the best teacher about the Enneagram that I know. She and her brother Kip have created a workshop that especially addresses issues around the pandermic. https://optimizedbalance.com/enneagram-workshop/

Spiritual direction is an ancient contemplative Christian tradition of spiritual companionship and guidance which goes back to the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the earliest Christian Centuries and has been carried on continuously by contemplative Christians ever since.

It’s hard to credit that our little lives, words, and actions can make a difference, but they do. For Parker J. Palmer, the world feels knocked off its axis t...hese days. But that doesn't mean our good work has no value. A reflection on the paradox of our smallness and our consequence in the world. See more

An Easter Poem GRAND CANYON They say the layered earth rose up Ancient rock leviathan... Trailing ages in its wake Lifting earthness toward the sun And coursing water cut the rock away To leave these many-storied walls Expose’ of ages gone Around this breathless emptiness More wondrous far than earth had ever known My life has risen layered too Each day, each year in turn has left Its fossil life and sediments Evidence of lived and unlived hours The tedium, the anguish, yes the joy That some heart-deep vitality Keeps pressing upward toward the day I die And Spirit cuts like water through it all Carving out this emptiness So inner eye can see The soaring height of canyon walls within Walls whose very color, texture, form Redeem in beauty all my life has been The darkness and the light, the false, the true While deep below the living waters run Cutting deeper through my parts To resurrect my gravebound heart Making, always making, all things new Parker J. Palmer