Volume 1 Number 30 |
The Editor's Desk: | August 1 - August 7, 2010 |
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Our mission is to present spiritual responses to some of the greatest challenges that life has to offer: events like death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, serious accident or illness, crises of identity, recovery from addiction, loss of job or career, retirement, and other life-altering events. |
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This week’s entry is offered in celebration of the beginning of Spring. What Spring is happening in your personal journey? How do the nuances of Spring, and in particular the budding of trees, speak to our own hopes and experiences? [Continue]
This week Rev. Jack Abel takes a somewhat lighthearted look at our publication’s title, focusing especially on the idea of crisis. What is a crisis? How does one know one is in a moment of crisis, and what is there to learn from other crises about this juncture in human existence, and its end? [Continue]
This week’s entry from Jack offers insight into the power and process of connecting to our heritage. How do our genetics and our social history have bearing on our present life? What can tapping in to this innate resource pool do for us as we navigate our day-to-day relationships? [Continue]
Need a getaway? Can’t afford the time or expense of travel? This week’s column borrows a technique from guided imagery or meditation to cultivate an individual resource for relaxation and spiritual growth. You’ll find helpful suggestions for how to create your own inner landscapes, and clues as to what makes these tools of the imagination [Continue]
Change is messy, and usually arises from challenge and pain. Generally we are not the only ones affected. This article, third in a series on navigating the middle passage of change, helps us finish change well. Continuing the parallel with 12-step recovery, we look at the process of making amends. Examples illustrate direct amends and amends by [Continue]
A new installment arrives this week from Rev. Jack Abel on navigating the middle stages of personal change. The recovery movement has lessons for us about this middle passage, including a process of inventory and counsel that brings us to deeper understanding of the change we seek. [Continue]
You know the saying: “when one door closes, another door opens.” My reflection today involves the corridor in between. A number of people have theorized about change. At a basic level, though, the corridor model is helpful. It suggests, perhaps in oversimplification, that there is an entrance, an exit, and a messy middle. The twelve steps of [Continue]
