This week I want to shift from personal responsibility to talking about the movement of Spirit. When we create, we are not creating on our own. We are co-creating with Spirit. Many times it is Spirit who initiates an invitation to co-create with us. The knock at our door In the Christian tradition we use […]
Category Archives: Spiritual Direction
These blog posts pertain to the spiritual discipline and practice of Spiritual Direction. They also pertain to various spiritual tools and practices that are part of deepening one’s connection to Spirit and Source.
Prayer of Confession: Communal Responsibility
If you grew up in a liturgical church, you know the Prayer of Confession. It is a prayer said near the beginning of worship, that invites the congregation to confess their sins, re-align themselves with Spirit’s heart, and thereby receive forgiveness and grace. I did not grow up in such a church tradition. It was […]
Freedom: The gift of personal responsibility
How and why take personal responsibility when the situation we are in is out of our hands? There are forces out there that are causing the challenge, the trauma, or the situation. It is being done to and upon us. Should not the responsibility lie outside ourselves on the entities, power and people who are […]
Taking back our Power: Facing our problems with courage
Thor has had a rough few days: First he battles Surtur for Surtur’s crown. He returns to Asgard to find that his brother, Loki, has disguised himself as Odin and is ruling the Nine Realms. After forcing Loki to drop his disguise, they head to Earth to find Odin. Odin dies after he reveals a […]
Abdicating Responsibility: Loki #ThorDarkWorld
Personal responsibility is the plumb-line that aids us in keeping integrity, authenticity and respect. How? When we feel into our personal responsibility, we are invited to feel how our actions affect others, as well as the natural world. Is that feeling building compassion, hope, love? Or is it hurting, harming, destroying, corrupting? When we abdicate personal responsibility, we are shutting […]