Sacred Pathways

05/15/2025

I've been wresting with something... and I've decided to just ask the question:

Why are so many Christians uninterested in spiritual growth? It seems to me that most Christians have fallen into the belief that going to church on Sunday mornings is enough, they don't need to invest any additional time in growing spiritually or deepening their relationship with God. Why?

I am seriously interested in the answer, so please be frank and honest. Answer anoymously if necessary. Feel free to send me a DM if you would prefer not to answer publicly.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to respond.

04/14/2025

And so, here we are in Holy Week. We’ve walked these forty wilderness days alongside Jesus and it has led here, to these moments spending time with the final days and hours of his life. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, ushering us into the Jerusalem narrative, processing from the ‘before’ of Jesus’ life and ministry and healing and preaching and raising the dead into the passion of Holy Week. He is welcomed in by the people, but the wheels are already turning for the ending of his life by the religious establishment.

Thousands of years after the events themselves, we spend time with them, lean in, let them invite us into new awareness. These rhythms of commemorating Holy Week have been around for a long time. For centuries, the church has leaned into these days, these final moments in the life of Christ. And whether or not we find our rhythms rooted in a particular community of faith in this season, Holy Week makes space for us to lean in, to wonder, to observe and accompany and receive and grieve.

What have your experiences with Holy Week been? How have they been life-giving or orienting for you in the midst of everything else going on in your life and our world? Or is this whole thing new to you? Perhaps you’ve known Good Friday—and of course Easter—but the rest of this is unfamiliar. How might you be invited to lean into *this* Holy Week, however your experience with it has (or has not) been in the past?

Today, Holy Monday, we see Jesus cursing the fig tree and overturning tables, his anger at the ones who should be bearing good fruit and leading his people into life—but are barren and unjust instead—clearly on display. How does Jesus’ anger make space for you to join in, this Holy Monday? To name the ways this world is not as it is meant to be, perhaps even to confront some place of injustice that you are particularly passionate about?

Jesus experiences so many emotions this week. His tears over Jerusalem, the angry whip, the agony in the Garden, the joy of intimate friendship, the pain of betrayal, and all that comes with physical pain. May these rhythms, these moments, offer you permission to feel, too, this Holy Week, alongside the ever-compassionate One.

03/05/2025

Joseph Tetlow, SJ, shares an Examen for Ash Wednesday, part of the "From Ashes to Glory" Lenten prayer series.

03/05/2025

I love this. If you know your Enneagram type, tell me if this seems right to you. If you don't know your Enneagram type, comment Type below and I'll be in touch with a link to help you discover your type.

02/17/2025

I love what Your Enneagram Coach does with things like this. If you know your Enneagram type, tell me how you resonate with your type's acts of kindness.

02/14/2025

This is what spiritual direction is about - soul care, soul friendship. This is who I am.

In everyone's life, there is great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.

Consequently, love is anything but sentimental. In fact, it is the most real and creative form of human presence. Love is the threshold where divine and human presence ebb and flow into each other.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Burren Rose, County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

01/29/2025

In this world there are hints of our own resurrection.... Beautiful thought.
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In this world there are hints of our own resurrection, explains Mary Kathleen Glavich, SND.

01/29/2025

Are your insecurities holding you back? Do they rear their ugly head just when you think you've conquered them?
I've been dealing with insecurities for as long as I can remember. It seems like two steps forward and three steps back much of the time. Something happened recently that sent me reeling back into the sink hole. Everything from my past that seems to reinforce those insecurities came rushing back in an instant and I was ready to run away from everything: church, ministry, my businesses, life in general. However, little by little I'm getting better at giving it to God. Once I get a good rant out that is. Thank God for my husband who loves me enough to let me rant! And thank God for always being there to lean on. He listens to our rants and our heartbreaks and insecurities too. After all, He knows them even better than we do.
Anyway, the point is, despite the situation not being resolved, I got a phone call today that reminded me Who I am and Whose I am, that I am worthy of the calling He has given me, and others see that even if some don't.
Take your insecurities to God.
If you need someone to come alongside you, mentor you, or even just listen to you, message me. I would be honored to walk with you.