Writing is war. According to Steven Pressfield who wrote the brilliant book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Problems, Resistance (with a capital R) is the inner enemy. This implacable enemy will attempt to stop you from writing or from engaging in any other worthwhile endeavor. “Resistance is […]
A Celtic Christian Journey-Prayer
In her book, The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, Esther De Waal writes, “I discovered that if I wanted to encounter Celtic Christianity, I had to look at poetry, and so I found myself being taken into the world of poetry and song. . . . I have found myself […]
Blogging for God
Like many, I felt called to blog. It was actually my husband, Terry, who first introduced me to blogging less than 1½ years ago. Interestingly, he was led to an article about a blogger, even though he never followed blogs. He felt that blogging might be something I’d be interested in doing. And he was right. Disclosure: […]
Softening the Heart
Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, wrote about tenderizing the heart. “Trungpa taught the Buddhist practice of bodhicitta, or awakened heart. His own term for awakened heart was ‘the genuine heart of sadness,’ which he explained as a natural and beautiful condition, the result of staying open to the full experience of life” (The Seeker’s […]