The Podcast

I want to take time each week to invite you in to listen to the podcast with the hopes that something in there will touch your heart or work your brain. The podcast is intended for anyone looking for daily spiritual encouragement and particularly for those in the 12 Steps seeking consistency in their daily

My Defects of Character

Do you share to manipulate? Invade a mind to seal your fate? Or do you keep things to yourself To punish, distance, heart on shelf? Do you people please because The pain’s too much of tension’s claws. Your tender sensibilities Too fragile for reality? Far down you look along you nose To travel, ego has

Snarls and Knots

We are body-soul composites. That being said, the physical world is much more in our face and therefore, for most of us, it is easier to notice and relate to. What I keep finding is how the realities of the physical world can also be applied to the realities of the spiritual world. Let me

Breadcrumbs

If you have been following along on my blog, you may have noticed mention of my being coached by various people along the way. I was so helped and changed by mindset coaching that over the last six months I became certified myself. After graduating they asked me to write something about my experience of

Lash to Lash

Once again you call to me You long to bring me home You hunger for me in Your house To have my heart be known. You Holy Three indwell in me When I, for You, make room, But often I do clutter, crowd And harbor things undue. But still in quiet moments, I feel this

Oh Misery, Duplicity

Duplicity, such misery Leads always to timidity A hesitance to simply be The who you are to you and me. What you want, you disengage Identity begins to fade. Ignored, Forgotten, self withdrawn, Without intent, your peace is gone. It burns you up, eats you alive Or in it your Desires die Tepidity kills all

Humility – The Soil of the Interior Life

I’ve been trying to write about humility for a few days now and I keep getting stuck. With the start of this virtue series, I determined (probably in response to a Holy Spirit nudge) Humility to be the best place to start because without it, there is no spiritual life…but I’ve had a hard time

Interior Vertigo

Have you ever tried to find that perfect balance spot In which a balance board doesn’t teeter, tilt or drop? I can tell you that in trying, I repeatedly do fall The board drops down and hits the ground And gravity applauds. This tendency to dip, to the right or to the left Concupiscence, the