Sacred Journeys Blog

Friendship with Our Body

11 Jun, 2018

This is the second week in a five-part series based on John O’Donohue’s book, Anam Cara, and Celtic Spirituality. Last week we talked about Soul Friendship, this week we discuss Friendship with Our Body (a concept that we’ve been hard-pressed...

Soul Friendship

04 Jun, 2018

“The Celtic understanding of friendship finds its [anam1] inspiration and culmination in the sublime notion of the anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul; carais the word for friend. So anam cara means soul friend. The anam cara was a...

Spirit of Creativity

30 May, 2018

Pentecost (typically 50 days after Easter) is the celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. The power of the Holy Spirit was the catalyst that got the followers of Jesus out from behind locked doors, making them bold and...

I Am the True Vine

21 May, 2018

Richard Rohr has said, “[M]ost Christians read the Bible in an entirely individualistic way which destroyed most of its transformative power. Jesus told us to “follow” him on this same transformative journey; instead, we just worshiped him...

I Am the Good Shepherd

14 May, 2018

First, let me spend a minute on the Cosmic Christ. You’ll recall that the Cosmic Christ is born out of the energetic and physical connection of all things in the universe and is the archetype of the divine-human (body-spirit) connection. It was...

I AM Light

07 May, 2018

I find it interesting that the prescribed lectionary readings directly following Easter include many of the “I Am” statements that Jesus makes in the gospel of John (note: these “I am” statements are unusual to John, who you’ll remember is the...

The Cosmic Christ

01 May, 2018

It’s time we move beyond the ancient cosmology to a new one that tells the story of the explosion that created all the energy and particles known to exist anywhere. It’s time to embrace the concept that we are created of the energy and matter...