The Art of Belonging
A couple of weekends ago, I spent a delicious three days with my sons, their partners, and my wonderful little granddaughter, who is not quite two years old. Since we live nearly three hundred miles apart, we had rented a house at a lakeside resort half-way between...
Desire is prayer
Prayer is the longing of the heart to know and be known by the Beloved. Every prayer is deep Desire. Every true desire is prayer.
Build a new body of experience
If you're going through one of those narrow places in your life where you feel alone and unprotected -- that trapped, not-enough-air-to-breathe feeling where the walls of your world loom over you, steep and hard-edged, and there's no inspiring star to guide you --...
On Desire and the creative kindness of limits
There's an epidemic of exhaustion, overwhelm, and not-enoughness among our tribe of online entrepreneurs. We care, deeply, about the state of our world. And we forget that giving and receiving are in-breath and out-breath. Too much of one without the other will leave...
The art and soul of teaching: Jen Louden
Jen Louden is the best-selling author of 6 books, including the pioneering best-sellers The Woman's Comfort Book and The Woman's Retreat Book. Her retreats are richly creative experiences, and often booked months in advance. She's the proud mom of a college freshman,...
Go where you belong
This and That
Between shelter and flight
Today, all that shelters me descends with the sudden, clamorous weight of a collapsed safari tent. Tangled in its heavy canvas, its guy wires and flapping doorway, I struggle to my knees, scrape the palm of my hand against flinty ground, stagger upright in the ruins...