Category: Spiritual Practices
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The Art of Conversing While Pilgriming
What does it mean to find relationship and foster community while walking with an international assortment of people?
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Claiming Our Baggage
Just like opening up a suitcase, even travel preparation can help us unpack some baggage!
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Embracing God’s Presence: Care, Attention, and Sharing
Now!Give heed!I am teaching: Observe,live,enter… The God of your ancestors is giving you… Keep the Lord your God,observe diligently…show wisdom and discernment. Surely, is god so near…whenever we call. Care,and watch closely.Neither forget the thingsyour eyes have seen,nor let them slip –Make them known! Reading this poem after I’d gone through the blackout poetry process…
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Echoes
Sometimes, the echoesreverberate so thunderously they threaten to drown outthe pleasant conversation at hand. © Annabelle P. Markey This poem came to mind while I was praying and walking on Friday, August 16. It’s a meditation on those moments when the “coulda, shoulda, woulda” voices rise unbidden in an overwhelming crescendo. In those moments, which inevitably…
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Ripe
It takes time for the oblate berries to reach their matte indigo hue, basking in the June sun. They’re so tempting thoughwhen they’re almost therehaving warmed from pale greento bright, maroon-ish purple. Sure,they’ll darken morein the berry bowl but they will always bepuckeringly tart. If only I have the experience, foresight,will,patience,to hold on –one…day…more… Oh!How sweet the taste! © Annabelle P. Markey
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The Camino Frances: Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and Our True Selves
I’m very excited to be leading a two-week pilgrimage on the Camino Frances (the last 200 km) with Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development this fall! We’ll have an information session on Wednesday, April 24th at 7:00 pm if you’re interested in finding out more. Email Oasis for the Zoom Link: oasismin@oasismin.org To check out the…
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“Take a chant(s) on me!”
I hope you enjoyed the ABBA reference 😉 I wanted to post two videos I filmed a few weeks ago based off of simple chants that sprang into my head a couple of years ago. I come from a family that loves music – singing oldies together and having jam sessions with extended family were…
Journeying Together 