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Contemplative Prayer: No Better Place to Be than with God

I stumbled into contemplative prayer by accident. After having been a hyperactive leader in my work, church and a local charity, I experienced disappointments in all these areas. I no longer wanted to pray. At a retreat I found myself in the chapel staring out

Jul

Contemplative Prayer: No Better Place to Be than with God

by Jan Johnson | No Comments

Jun

10 Lessons I Learned About Befriending the Soul from John O’Donohue

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

I’m always grateful when I come across authors who speak with a mystical voice. Their poetic nature speaks to me at my deepest levels and feeds a stream within me that is seldom accessed by more ordinary means. I found such a voice in John

Jun

10 Lessons I Learned About Befriending the Soul from John O’Donohue

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

Jun

Following Your Dreams

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS What do you do when a dream comes calling? What do you do when it whispers in your ear? When it shows you desires that lie hidden in your heart, that call to you like messages from ages past? We all have

Jun

Following Your Dreams

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

Jun

The Song Of The Divine

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

The Song of the Divine I stood on a rock above the shore, watching the giant waves crashing on the beach below. Mesmerized by their power and magnificence, I lost all track of time. Caught up in the exquisite dance between the full force of

Jun

The Song Of The Divine

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

Jun

A Higher Form of Ethics

by Donna Miesbach | No Comments

At some time or another in the evolution of the human species, I have to believe we will move beyond the primitive form of ethics which presently govern us. I have to believe that the curvature of growth in rational consciousness will help us understand

Jun