It occurred to me when preparing to write this blog to tell you about spiritual guidance and what it means. To do so, I need to give you a very brief overview of its history. Spiritual guidance has several titles such as: “Spiritual Direction”; “Spiritual Accompaniment” or Anam Cara (Soul friend, in Irish). It has […]
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So going into the Leaving Cert French orals this week, I have had to prepare a ‘document’ to talk about. This is usually one or two pictures about an interesting topic for conversation and mine is a collage of pictures outlining the work I’ve been a part of in Africa. I was reminded, as I […]
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I’m not wild about bringing this up, I’ll be honest. Whether it is because Easter is close, or because past conversations have woven in and out of it, or because a recent tv series we watched was so incarcerated by it, I don’t know, but I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the subject of […]
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Our as-yet-nameless bible study group (four years on) that meets on Wednesdays (used to be Thursdays) with fluid membership requirements (think we’ve narrowed it down to female?) is currently doing a series on choices. (Perhaps we should have started with this one all those years ago…) Anyway, this series started with a detailed look into […]
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Flu. Thoughts riot, cascading madly. One minute you are inspired, the next weeping over nothing. In fact, weeping over nothing seems to be the way to end the day for a week afterwards. Your legs stop working, and you are feverish every time you have a shower/use a hairdryer/drink a cup of tea/put on a […]
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