Praying Like a Novelist
The secret to fiction is that the writer “turns from everything to one face…to find oneself face to face with everything,” as novelist Elizabeth Bowen put it.
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Spiritual Practice
Finding Value in your Creative and Spiritual Endeavors
We write within a vast web connecting those we’ve read and those who’ve come before us and our writing colleagues and our readers and all we love; this web forms the ground of our being, it moves through us and beyond us. It does not discriminate. It simply radiates life, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.
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The Challenge of Receiving Love
Receiving love is not about our egos at all. It’s deep nurturance, a humble opening of the heart.
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Faith and the “Poopy Growth Mindset”
Ask what I’m learning in the Living School and I’ll blather incoherently, enthusiastically, and at great length about the Christian mystical tradition, the significance of contemplation, and a complete overhaul of my faith. I was doing just that at Easter dinner a few weeks ago. My father-in-law asked, and all eleven relatives at the table
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Blessed Are…Those Who Move?
It’s as though I’d spent the first forty-five years of my life listening to (and being stirred by) great piano concerts every Sunday morning, and then one day sat down at the keyboard. I’ve no clue how to make music. But I’m learning, and as any musician knows, you learn by practicing.
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Finding Acceptance in Surprising Places
What if the new life we look for (in publication, in success) might also be found elsewhere?
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Tunneling Through Anxiety
Anxiety is simply what it feels like to move through the birth canal, and awful as it is, it brings us to birth.
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The Small, Accessible World of Publishing
Writers who long to communicate need readers, and readers have particular needs that writers can fill. The small ways we find to close this circle are beautiful works of art in their own right.
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Yours, for Keeps
Our cracks are for keeps, and the spirit of a loving life flourishes when we accept this, put up a fresh coat of paint, and move on.
In Our Holographic World
The craft of writing can transform what might otherwise be naval gazing or isolationism into a contemplative practice, one that embraces both the full range of our diversity as well as our singular unity.
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