the sacred deep
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When we are taught from a young age that we are to care for others over ourselves, When we are shown from youth that others matter and our voices don't, When...

with the damning disbelief and shock searing her bones, electric tears carving permanent stains and powerful earthquakes shuddering her collapsed body as her...

I was sitting at a red light today and was considering my Lenten intention to become more conscious of my impulses, those things in my life that feed my ego ...

“We always find that the ones who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the biggest trials.” Theresa of Avila Research shows the vast majority ...

Today is my baby's 6th birthday. Six years ago I experienced both trauma and joy, both elation and pain. It was a birth that had such dichotomous feelings, I...

Connection with others is based on story. Think about it-when in your life do you feel most connected to the closest in your life? It is when you are fully p...

“Let twilight purity/lure you/with/opal blue illusion”—Witness, Ellen Dionna Here is my opal-blue illusion: seen at once--cyan blue, --another, threaded with...

I am the hearth bellow, the singular reason This Fire glows and crackles: in, out, in, out. Do I notice the odd green and citrine flames? Do I recognize the ...

Today, in the woods, I sat thinking about my daughter and all our daughters and sisters and mothers and #metoo and #ustoo, I looked down and I saw moss. Moss...

Water my soul, God, know my brokenness and fill it with your fluid of transformation. Understand my fear of my rifts, allow me to see these not as wounds but...