Secure and Insecure Attachment Styles
We love the picture of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus absorbed in a flood of divine love. Here in the Holy Family God is showing…
Tag: Soul Friendship
Spiritual Friendship: Aelred and Ivo’s Example
We all long for soul talk and spiritual friendship. To feel fully alive we need to participate in personal relationships that are based in empathy and draw us…
Transforming Your Social Dimension
This is an updated version of a Bible study I did in 2006 on the role of the social part of the human being in spiritual…
I Had Too Many Balls to Hit!
We just took our youngest child to college and arrived home to an empty nest. I said to Bill, “I feel like a baseball batter…
A Hidden Pastor Came Into the Light
“If we walk in the light, as [God] is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his…
Stay in the Shadow of the Great Tree
Hiking in a remote forest Lake Arrowhead, CA a few days ago I saw a great pine tree that’s over 100 years old and just…
Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship
This sample reading log on Spiritual Friendship by Aelred of Rievaulx is like the ones that participants complete in our Soul Shepherding TLC program. (A reading log is a…
“You Will Be Great in Jesus!”
One day when I was sixteen years old I was talking to my mom. I was depressed. I told her, “I don’t have any friends.…
Alone in a Crowd, I Need a Friend
Walking into my high school cafeteria was one of the hardest things I’ve done in my life. I had my lunch bag in my hand…
Sacred Pathways Survey
This Sacred Pathways Survey will help you to understand the ways you best connect with God and how you can grow spiritually. Nine paths are explained.