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Contemplative in the Kootenays

March 28, 2020 By Wide Spot Admin Leave a Comment

Contemplative in the Kootenays will meet on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The day begins at 10 am and ends at 3 pm. WE WILL BE MEETING ON LINE, DIRECTIONS BELOW. We’ll begin with centering prayer … [Read more...]

Tagged With: centring prayer, communion, connection, contemplative, Contemplative Christianity, lectio divina, meditation, Practices, spiritual, spirituality

Doulas to the World

March 20, 2020 By Therese DesCamp

  I wrote this several years ago--but it seems a good thing to post again--td     For all creation is groaning in birth pangs together…     Romans 8:22   It’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion Tagged With: connection, contemplative, interconnection, Joy, Pandemic, spirituality, suffering

Keep Within

March 20, 2020 By Therese DesCamp

Keep within, And when they say, “Look here,” or “Look, there is Christ.” Go not forth; for Christ is within you.                            --George Fox, Quaker mystic Everywhere we look, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion Tagged With: anxiety, connection, contemplative, coronavirus, forgiveness, interconnection, love, meditation, Metta, Pandemic, prayer, service, spirituality, suffering

Fall Retreat: Love and Suffering

September 27, 2019 By Wide Spot Admin Leave a Comment

The path of mystics, the path of depth, is always the result of love and suffering. Love itself draws us into suffering, because if we open ourselves to the vulnerability of love, we will inevitably … [Read more...]

Tagged With: ashram, centring prayer, connection, contemplative, Contemplative Christianity, group, Helen Luke, interconnection, lectio divina, Love and suffering, meditation, spiritual, suffering, Yasodhara

Norma Collier

March 22, 2019 By Therese DesCamp

I am speaking today not simply for myself but for the contemplative group which has been gathering monthly here in the Kootenays for the last twelve years. And I bring love from the members of that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Sweet Spot Slocan, Uncategorized Tagged With: connection, contemplative, Contemplative Christianity, death, group, interconnection, meditation, spirituality

Whatever you call it…

March 19, 2019 By Therese DesCamp

Nobody asks me to pray for them anymore. Most of what I hear these days is some variation on the phrase, “Please send good energy.” Is this just my friends and family or is this a universal shift? I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Interfaith, One, prayer, Religion / Faith, Sweet Spot Slocan Tagged With: connection, Contemplative Christianity, energy, intercession, interconnection, kythe, kything, Practices, prayer, suffering, tonglen, values

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