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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

Caring for the Caregiver

June 18, 2019 by Linda A Marshall 10 Comments

Depression The past few months I notice a change in my daughter’s behavior. She sleeps more (and she already sleeps a lot because daytime sleepiness is one of the symptoms of her disease), spends more time in her room, doesn’t eat as much, is even more non-communicative than usual, complains of aches and pains. After […]

Filed Under: Caregiving, Community, Friendship Tagged With: Care for the Caregiver, Challenges, Community, Friendship

Thinking Too Big Dulls My Creativity

September 7, 2018 by Linda A Marshall 5 Comments

Vast … great … whopping … extensive … immense … massive … lofty … towering … soaring … significant … spacious … roomy … huge … enormous … gigantic … mammoth … giant … colossal … momentous … substantial … weighty … hefty. What associations do you make with these words and images?   Minor […]

Filed Under: Community, Making a difference Tagged With: Challenges, Evolving, Reparations, White Fragility, White Privilege

Grief: The Gift, The Challenge, The Process

August 15, 2018 by Linda A Marshall 8 Comments

THE GIFT In the last few years, several of my friends and I experienced significant losses. The anguish involved in loss is rarely welcomed, and often seen as the price one pays for having loved greatly. I, however, tend to look upon grief as a gift. Think of the alternative. Without great love, there would […]

Filed Under: Community, Making a difference Tagged With: Challenges, Friendship, Grief, Love, Values

Soul Work: Awakening to My Slippery

June 20, 2018 by Linda A Marshall 5 Comments

Spiritual realization is simply awakening to a direct stable perception that all beings are already and only the one Beingness of all things. … Full enlightenment isn’t required, but an intuition of this orientation is a necessary foundation for a healthy relationship to soul work.   ~Terry Patten Our Integral Spirituality Book Study Group chose Terry […]

Filed Under: Family, Spirituality Tagged With: Awakening, Challenges, Dealing with bureaucracy, Intention

Transformation In Process: Personal and Systemic

June 16, 2018 by Linda A Marshall 2 Comments

In many ways, my recent confrontation with the unwieldy and heartless Medicaid bureaucracy mirrors the experiences I wrote about in my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace. I had naively believed that my daughter had achieved stability and I was past having to fight the system on her behalf.  The wisdom and trust in the […]

Filed Under: Family, Making a difference, Spirituality Tagged With: Challenges, Dealing with bureaucracy, Intention, Kindness, Transformation

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