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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

Beating the February Blahs

February 17, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

What better way to beat the dreary February blahs than to create a gathering designed to make powerful female connections. The sun did bless us with brilliant rays on the 15th as my friends arrived at my home. The depth of spirit in our sharing would brighten the gloomiest of days.  Wisdom = Knowledge Deepened […]

Filed Under: Community of Women, Family, Wisdom Tagged With: Family of Choice, Gabrielle Ernshaw, Henri Nouwen, Maya Angelou, Melinda Gates, Saraswati Miller

Ceremonial Burning

May 13, 2019 by Linda A Marshall 7 Comments

You are a link in a chain of causation that stretches before and after your life for a thousand generations. ~Rev. Chris Michaels Last summer I tore the pages of my journals into shreds … pages I used to remember the details of my story chronicled in A Long Awakening to Grace: a memoir of […]

Filed Under: Community of Women, Contributing, Evolving, Healing, Transforming Tagged With: Celebrating Life

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