A secret spiritual thing for me–where the “made” world overlaps with the “natural” world, these points are like a crack into infinity. I also love that this simple lovely thing is a meme for a few days, at least in my corner of the internet.
Tag: wilderness spirituality
In a Program for the Fall!
It’s sort of (but not much) like being pregnant. I got the good news about a month ago, but I wanted to get through filling out some of the forms, and my vetting by their HR Department. But now I feel like I can publicly announce it… I got into a Clinical Pastoral Education program for the fall. Starting in… Read more →
A Wealth of Choices.
Friends, I just got back from a 9-day retreat in the desert, with the School of Lost Borders’ Practice of Living and Dying curriculum, focussing on forgiveness, apology and reconciliation. Deep, physically and emotionally challenging, reinvigorating. Among many gifts, I came out from this trip with a renewed commitment to writing at least two blog posts a week until the fall (when… Read more →
Beginning in the middle–welcome to this blog. Or maybe we’ve met before?
Now is the time. Read this first, dated July 27th, 2014. When I was growing up, my dad had a big sign on the wall of his ceramics studio: IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT IF YOU’RE AN ANGEL, YOU MUST GO TO THE ABRUPT EDGE AND LEAP. As a boy and a young man I didn’t give the… Read more →
Letter of Intent for Fall 2014 Vision Quest
I completed this ROP with Rites of Passage, based out of Santa Rosa, California, although the quest itself was in the Owlshead Mountains in Death Valley. I’m beginning training as a vision quest guide with Rites of Passage as an adjunct to my chaplaincy training. This gives some further insight into it all: I’m stepping into this VQ to mark the… Read more →
Listening Up and Listening In
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen What are you listening to? A mundane, of-this-world, questions. These days it would be asked mostly of someone… Read more →
Front I’m Moving Forward On: Wilderness Spirituality
My hope is that chaplaincy training will give me a titled professional container for my life as a spiritual worker. My thought is that the wilderness spirituality training, along with the study of death, could be seen as the drink in the cup of chaplaincy. I am a Jew, and this is forward in my spiritual life and personality. I pray often,… Read more →