This morning I awoke from the loveliest dream I can recall for sometime now.Betsy and I were walking in London...
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” —Mary Oliver
The golden thread running through my life’s journey is a persistent calling to find, as Frederick Buechner describes, the place where my deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger. Soulful shenanigans and holy hijinks are my love languages.
A stop motion meditation
seekingsophia
September 7, 2021
Take a deep breath and allow yourself 51 seconds of calm.
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To love and allow ourselves to be loved
seekingsophia
April 1, 2021
I’ve become rather obsessed with walking. In the midst of the pandemic, there’s not much else to keep my body...
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The fog of fear
seekingsophia
March 3, 2021
March has come in like a lamb here in Holland. As is often the way on the cusp between seasons,...
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Unlearning Fear
seekingsophia
March 1, 2021
A week or so before I was to turn 52 I was walking across the wide open fields of the...
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God be in my constant overthinking
seekingsophia
February 11, 2021
The season of my coming out was fraught with tumultuous storms and beautiful sunrises. It was nearly 20 years ago...
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Why Pray for Peace?
seekingsophia
January 19, 2021
God is not a cosmic vending machine and prayer is not tossing pennies in a divine wishing well. Prayer is persistently practicing...
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Seeking Sophia
seekingsophia
December 29, 2020
Propped on my desk is a lean-to cork board with a page torn from Flow Magazine depicting a Mary Oliver...
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Maybe I’m a dreamer…
Sabine Morf
September 26, 2020
I have been reflecting on the motivation on how this place, Vrijspirit, became to be. More often than not, I...
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Wood Wide Web
Kimberly
September 20, 2020
I hope you will take a nice long walk just to look, really look, at the trees that inhabit the...
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Taking Up Space
Kimberly
August 25, 2020
Women, you may take up as much space in the world as you require. Of course with the right to...
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What we are for?
Kimberly
August 21, 2020
In today's social and political climate, it seems quite easy to talk about what we are against. When we clearly...
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25 Things to Do on a Digital Detox
Kimberly
August 18, 2020
At this writing, I am 165 days into my year-long social media sabbatical and I still get responses that sound...
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Walking a Sandy Path
Kimberly
August 16, 2020
This morning at low tide, we made and walked a sandy labyrinth with friends on Katwikj Stand. I met curious...
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