Category Archives: Spirit

Darkness Before Dawn

Posted on June 26, 2015 by jenny

One of the chapters in Darkness Before Dawn spoke so well to me that I marked a lot of passages.  It’s called “Into the Dark Light” by Elizabeth Rabia Roberts. She says “any loss that strips away the identity you … Continue reading →

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Trying to Love Myself

Posted on June 17, 2015 by jenny

This came on the Daily Good: Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit … Continue reading →

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My Life Has Meaning

Posted on May 21, 2015 by jenny

I can’t remember the session with Erica well enough to write.  I did most of the talking — talking very fast, getting lost in stories and forgetting the point.  I don’t even remember what I was trying to tell her.  … Continue reading →

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Redemption

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jenny

Told Lynelle about feeling like there was “no god” for the last couple of days.  She knows what that’s like.  She said she thinks of penguins — who else could have thought them up?  She also gave me back Tattoos … Continue reading →

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Epiphany

Posted on January 6, 2015 by jenny

When I worked in a Planetarium, we did a “Christmas Star” show in December.  Among different ideas such as a comet, a nova, or a conjunction of planets so close that they might have looked like one very bright star, … Continue reading →

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Conversation with Jesus

Posted on December 17, 2014 by jenny

My take on Jesus is that he is no more the “Son of God” than any of us, that we are all children of god.  It doesn’t matter to me whether the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection are true or … Continue reading →

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Vocation

Posted on October 7, 2014 by jenny

I started reading Stephen Cope’s book “The Great Work of Your Life” which is about vocation.  I had only read a little way into it, when it became abundantly clear that my vocation is the work I am doing with … Continue reading →

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God Speaks to Job

Posted on September 19, 2014 by jenny

And now for something completely different: Gird up thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?  Hath the rain a father?  From … Continue reading →

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Healing with Art

Posted on August 17, 2014 by jenny

The Daily Good sends out a piece of positive news every day.  I don’t always read them right away.  Today I went back and started reading old ones that I had never looked at.  This one is from early January … Continue reading →

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Faithful, not Successful

Posted on June 30, 2014 by jenny

Father Greg, in Tattoos on the Heart, quotes Mother Teresa: “We are not called to be successful, but faithful.” I thought about that a lot yesterday.  What am I called to be faithful to?  I think of my accepted task, … Continue reading →

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