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Welcome to a place to listen to your life, where words, quotes, and questions are explored for the guidance they carry. Especially in times of change. 

This is a blog devoted to the power of words and to the “surprise” of the unfolding we all face in our lives, some times more palpably than others. What helps in times of deep change? What guides? What is trying to get our attention?  Sometimes a word is an unexpected guidepost… like a signal on a dark sea, unexpectedly shining a light. 

Sometimes the words are linked to key concepts I have worked with in retreats and with clients for many years:  Managing change, vocational shifts and surprises, navigating wilderness times, how “call” changes throughout our lives. 

Other times I will write to explore a word that has come to me during my life now, one that literally “emerges” from the overwhelm, fear or busyness, because that word has a quality that is both immediate and reverberatory. Like it has more to say about some of the larger currents running underneath any given situation. Sometimes that word… heard or uttered or read… grabs me and opens up a clue to the next chapter of my life, or gives comfort and direction in a current one. 

My hope is that these short essays may speak to readers. Yes, it’s a little weird to hope that they might also speak to you, but so often the personal comes trailing collective threads. And I hope to collect some of your “emerging words” in Comments sections as this community grows and shares. That this blog and my Substack might be an invitation to notice the “words” that are coming to you, your touchstones, your own “spiritual direction in daily life.” May we be a community of people sharing guidance. 

Listening for and noting your own words from a day, a week… spoken or unspoken… from a conversation or a reading… all can be a form of prayer. Welcome.