welcome to this space, a place where i hope to simply be, and where you might be invited to join me in doing the same.
who am i?
last night dreamt the name ‘emma’ was given to me in a dream, looked it up this morning to discover it means ‘whole’, threw my head back with the joy of laughter. yes! this is who i am…wholly human, utterly sacred, at once. in the same breath.
i express myself …my humanity, my divinity….through poetry, a perfect whole-maker for me. there it all comes up and out to be seen and to be loved….the beautiful, the terrible, in one blessed cup.
i enjoy gardening with native plants, another attempt i suppose at reclaiming wholeness and balance. there is nothing nearly so complete as nature left to be.
i cherish my spiritual direction practice. it is so rich a journey on which to be invited to travel with another, to witness the beauty of the inner terrain where god and the other walk, to be invited into that sacred ground. i listen to persons’ sacred stories both face to face (in my home) and via e-mail (www.sacredlistening.org)
i also find leading retreats to be life-giving, to give birth to safe and sacred space where others might enter in and find themselves to be loved and to be Love, to be heard into wholeness.
i volunteer for the local sexual assault center as a member of their spiritual advisory board. we are trying to make whole the healing services, which the sexual assault center and the spiritual community offer to hurting persons.
i also volunteer as a board member for a regional contemplative community, www.oasismin.org , which offers training programs, prayer and mindfulness practices, quiet days, and retreats through which individuals may come to experience the unfolding of Spirit in their daily lives.
my experience of being a mother continues to be my greatest spiritual journey. through it, my soul continues to grow vastly in its understanding of love.
i pray for Love’s continued be-coming within all.
all is well
