Author: Paula
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Blessings by Laura Story and “God’s Love”
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Our next retreat is this Saturday and our focus is “God’s Love: Learning to See with New Eyes.” The idea came to me when I saw how Zoom reacted to my Mom giving him an old toy that I had played with as a child. He lit up. The toy…
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Friday Fun Links: Jewelry, Sweet Nursery, Chickens, a Desk and Zoom
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I’ve found a few gorgeous things and new-to-me blogs around the internet in the last week. I figured it would be fun to share them with you all. Mimi & Lu: Gorgeous jewlery for a good cause. Jewlery maker Michelle Watson named her company using a mashup of her name,…
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The Feast of Saint Francis
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This last weekend we headed out of town to Guerneville, California which is up on the Russian River. The cottage we stayed at had a peaceful garden, along with a statue of Saint Francis, surrounded by little animals. I thought it was so appropriate, and uncanny, that we were visiting…
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Quieting the Mind for Silent Meditation
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On my way to lead the 7:30 am contemplative prayer service at the last weekend retreat, I snapped this photo of the chapel. I loved the light, and the way it hit the door. There was something about the moment, the quiet, the long shadows, that reminded me of an…
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Happiness is Trying to Find You
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“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” – Hafiz I took this picture back in 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland. I’d met my parents there for a trip to celebrate my Dad’s retirement, and it truly was one of those amazing…
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Contemplating Lots of Quotes and Anne Lamott
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I’m working on material for the next retreat, “Finding God and Oneself in the Digital Age,” along with working on a small piece for the YDS journal, Reflections. Tonight I banged out possibly the worst first draft ever. In these moments, I have to think of Anne Lamott’s words from…
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Put Away the Spiritual Cosmetics: Every Life Has a Story
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This week I was in “New Employee Orientation,” and while I work as a project manager in a credit union, one of the videos we watched was a training video for Chick-Fil-A. I found it to be riveting: From an HR perspective, our trainer wanted us to think about how…
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Step into the Light onto New Holy Ground
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Sean and I have been at odds with one another over some lingering divorce issues. Suffice to say that divorce is never, ever easy, even if you have legal professionals like jennifer croker sorting out all the tedious financial matters – there’s still the emotions to deal with. Two lives…
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A Video ‘Trailer’ for the August Retreat
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I whipped up a little video trailer on the August retreat Father Rusty and I are working on, hopefully for use on the San Damiano home page. Here’s a sneak peek before it goes “prime time” –