Spiritual Direction: A Ministry of Listening
February 28, 2019Spiritual direction is a ministry of listening. A spiritual director asks the directee, "How is the Spirit moving in you today?" and listens for the response.
Spiritual Practice and Transformation That Lasts
February 9, 2019If our spiritual transformation is to be a long-term change, we must build a way of being that supports it in our everyday lives.
Finding the Emotions You’ve Stored in Your Body
August 15, 2020I was feeling off in a way that I could not quite pin down. As an Enneagram NINE, this is not too unusual for me. For once, I tried to do something about it.
A labyrinth is a path contained within a constrained boundary, generally filling the whole space and winding back and forth without crossing itself. It can be as simple as an inward spiral or as complex as the designs...
Unlike a maze, a labyrinth is not a puzzle to solve; it is a path to walk. There are no dead ends; you may not know where you are, but you are never lost.
I built a 5-circuit labyrinth in the backyard with a weed-wacker, a tomato spiral, and bits of string.
Winter has its own beauty when the sun is shining. These photos were taken in January of 2023. I hope they bring a little cheer to your day. In this season of sorrows, I offer a daily photo as an object of rest and refreshment. I hope these photos will give you an open space in your day, if only for a moment, to catch your...
Self-emptying Love withdraws to create a void in which humanity is created. What child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary's lap is sleeping?
Advent is the season of waiting. We wait for a child. The vulnerable among us also wait. Several years ago, during the season of Advent, my wife and I visited our neighbours for dinner. We had a great time over food and conversation, catching up with one another after quite a while of very...
The season of Advent invites us to prepare our hearts to receive the Divine. From the point of view of the Enneagram, God comes to us in this season in the spaces of the heart. At TWO, we...
"The seasons shift! Rejoice!" Several dozen of us, bundled up against the cold on the longest night of 2002, moved clockwise from our places to the next point on the compass. We were distributed around a large circle in...
"Can the darkness ever extinguish the light?"
I thought about this for a moment and said, "I don't think so." For the season of Lent 2022, I will be posting a Photo of the Day. I hope to add a daily moment of beauty and refreshment to the world. Enneagram TRANSFORMATION takes a lifetime. The more you're working with transformation, the less you're focusing on the Enneagram. The greater focus is on cultivating RECEPTIVE spiritual presence. A book published a few years ago by my teachers and mentors, Carol Ann Gotch and David Walsh, invites the reader to venture beyond the limits of the Enneagram of Personality. Heart and Soul of the Enneagram...
We are "clothed in an earthly garment, in a mortal frame — bound by the natural laws of the universe and by a world of dualities." We wear a cloak woven from the strands of our centres of...
The Head wants to Know. On the Enneagram, the Head Centre or Thinking Centre is expressed in spaces FIVE, SIX, and SEVEN. These spaces can be defined by the following questions:
FIVE: "How can I meet and know the...
A while back I attended a day retreat and had a significant spiritual experience. So, of course, when I went home, I immediately incorporated this Grace into my life. Or not.
Drawing an Eleven-Circuit Medieval Labyrinth
April 1, 2020
A Meditation On The Labyrinth
April 11, 2020
The Backyard Labyrinth
July 8, 2020
Winter Scenes
November 13, 2023
Beholding the Beauty Of The World (Lent 2022)
March 2, 2022
Advent 1: Self-Emptying Love
November 27, 2022
The Vulnerable Season
December 13, 2018
Bethlehem Peace Light
December 15, 2017
Advent Prayers
December 8, 2020
Winter Solstice
December 21, 2017
The Light Shines in the Darkness
January 21, 2020
Gallery of Daily Photos(Lent/Easter 2022)
March 15, 2022
Guest Post: The Enneagram as Entertainment, as Information, and as Transformation
September 18, 2020
Book Excerpt: Heart and Soul of the Enneagram
November 17, 2019
Three Enneagram Centres: An Earth Trinity
September 30, 2020
Head Centre in the Enneagram — Logic and Imagination
March 29, 2018
That feeling when…I don’t do what I want to do
January 17, 2018