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Trust

September 15, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

Trust Lacking It took me a long time to trust that I knew more than I thought I did. I vividly remember the first time I became aware of receiving a message from the still small voice of wisdom within me. I was young … twenty-four … and I didn’t fit in with my peers. […]

Filed Under: Divine Guidance, Inner Life, Transformation, Trust, Wisdom Tagged With: Being a misfit, Charter for Compassion, Fitting in, Hutzpah, Inner Guidance, Interior Castle, Karen Armstrong, Still small voice of wisdom, TED Talks, Teresa of Avila, The Spiral Staircase, Women Mystics

Peace

September 9, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 8 Comments

My daughter and I watch a modern Western crime drama called “Longmire” on Netflix. No binging … just a couple of episodes a couple of times a week. There certainly is a lot of crime in Sheriff Walt Longmire’s little corner of Wyoming. Crime dramas are more my daughter’s fare than mine, but I must […]

Filed Under: Inner Life, Spiritual Guidance, Wisdom Tagged With: Acceptance, Cognitive deficits, Loneliness, Longmire, Love your enemies, Loving the enemy within, Netflix, Peace, Serenity Prayer, Tai Chi

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

Wisdom to Guide Me in Times Like These

May 31, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 4 Comments

It has been awhile since I have written here. Something in me senses that our pandemic is here to teach us an important lesson if we are open to learning it. And so, I have been spending time with thought leaders who have greater wisdom than I possess. I do that through reading and podcasts. […]

Filed Under: Challenges, COVID 19, Higher Purpose, Inner Life, Values, Wisdom Tagged With: Ani Guzman, Brene Brown, Caroline Myss, COVID 19, Cynthia Bourgeault, Devendra Banhart, Elaine Pagels, Elizabeth Lesser, Gavin DeBecker, Jim Marian, Johann Hari, Krista Tippett, Lost Connections, Mariamne Paulus, Michael A. Singer, Monica Sharma, Ocean Voung, On Being, State of Emergence, Sue Monk Kidd, Terry Patten, Victor Frankl, Vote Forward, Zoom Fatigue

A Healing Gift of Authentic Love

April 23, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 9 Comments

In my last post, I wrote about the “gift of connection” I received from my cousin, Mike. This post will make more sense if you have read that one … and/or this one written some time ago. Mike’s Curiosity about My Feminism Mike and I spoke again on Sunday, April 19. I had been helping him […]

Filed Under: AWE, Caring Connections, Love, Vulnerability Tagged With: "Growing Up Female", Authenticity, Awe, Conversion, Feminism, Healing, Julia Reichert, Love, Mystical Experience, Values

My Testimony

August 1, 2019 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

A weight lifted I left church this morning with my shoulders straighter and my head held higher. I could feel a weight lifted. I came out … in church. I was REAL about the shame I carry around sex. So much support My friends are a blessing. Seven came to give me support. Most of […]

Filed Under: Making a difference, Shame, Spirituality, Vulnerability Tagged With: Sex, Sexual Shame, Sexuality

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