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Times

October 13, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

The challenges of our times call for a new way of seeing and being. We need to learn new dance steps. Won’t you come out to play and learn with me?

Filed Under: Challenges, Community, Evolving Tagged With: Contributing, Dance, Forgiveness, Joy, Love, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Sensitivity, Shifting the Way We See, Signs of the Times, Spirituality, Times Like These

Endurance

August 10, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

An Essential Spiritual Quality Roselin sent our Archeologists of the Spirit group a handout in preparation for our July 7 meeting. It included an excerpt from Caroline Myss’s book, Entering the Castle, based on  Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle. Myss identifies endurance as a spiritual quality learned in the First Mansion. Endurance is an essential […]

Filed Under: A Long Awakening to Grace, Community, Publishing, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Transformation, Writing Tagged With: Blessings, Caroline Myss, Challenges, Chronic Disease, Community, Divine Emissaries, Endurance, Entering the Castle, Freedom, Healing, Interior Castle, It Takes a Village, Life, Miracles, Richard Rohr, Soul, Spiritual Qualities, Stamina, Teresa of Avila

Spirit Sisters

August 6, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 6 Comments

Because I don’t have sisters, I’ve made it a point to develop friendships with women. I am blessed with many “Spirit Sisters.” Faithful Friends Sharon and Kathryn are two of them. We met in seminary 45 years ago and, despite living at a distance, they are among my most faithful of friends. My son was […]

Filed Under: Caring Connections, Community of Women, Feminism Tagged With: Alaska, Arches National Park, Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Bryce Canyon, Consciousness Raising, ERA, Faithful Friends, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Monument Valley, Spirit Sisters, United Methodist US2 Mission Program, Zion

Re-Conditioning Needed

July 22, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 8 Comments

Conditioning When someone young is criticized a lot, they become conditioned to look for what is wrong with them. That happened to me. One of the complements I receive from readers of my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace, is how honest I was about my faults. For many years, friends confronted me about how […]

Filed Under: AWE, Community of Women, Empowerment, Groups, Inner Life, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Caroline Myss, Conditioning, Entering the Castle, Finding our Soul, Habits of the Heart, Interior Castle, Mystery, Practice of Illumination, Prayer, Self-knowledge, Teresa of Avila, Women Mystics

Embracing Life-Giving Stories

March 27, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

Yes, this is my 2nd blog post in a week. I have more time now … and writing always helps to center me. Some of this one just came pouring out. Hope you enjoy and comment! Pandemic Stress This week on Next Door, my neighborhood online group, one woman told about her nephew who works […]

Filed Under: Appreciation, Caring Connections, Community, COVID 19, Kindness Tagged With: AVAZZ, Coping with COVID 19, Disaster Sociologists, Krista Tippett, Life-giving Stories, Pandemic Stress, Rebecca Solnit, USC

On Being Among the Vulnerable

March 24, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 8 Comments

Odd Elderly … It is just plain odd to be so deemed. I am well past 65, apparently when we begin to be considered such. I have not thought of myself as “elderly” and “vulnerable” and neither has my 80-year-old friend, Ruth. The second definition given by Merriam-Webster is “old fashioned.” This is what we […]

Filed Under: Community, Conscious Aging Tagged With: Coping with COVID 19, Elderly vs Elder, Facebook Groups, Facetime, Gratitude, Joy, Kindness, Simple Pleasures, Technology, Vulnerability, Zoom

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