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Grateful Walking

While visiting Cashiers waiting for the leaves to begin their annual color explosion, I found myself wishing I could find Betty’s grieving tree or Julian’s rock. when my phone rang, Betty was calling unexpectedly, so I asked directions. I wanted […]

May 9

Prayerful silence is the heart’s certainty of the captivating Presence of the Divine. It is a breathless quiet in which the Ineffable within us communes with the Ineffable beyond us. ~Betty

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March 13

To live a spiritual life is to live in the presence of God. To do this, the heart must be emptied of all other things. ~ Betty The Hidden Life Awakened

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A Letter From Betty

Dear Ones, As always in the morning quiet here in my little room in the nursing home, my heart and thoughts are filled with a special warmth; a closeness and sweetness that transcends the distance and separation from you and […]

On Retreat: December

Our prayer is that On Retreat will help you break from habituated patterns of mind and frantic activity, make more space for God, and step into a new way of seeing, believing, and abiding.The descending way of humility is a […]

A Letter from Betty

Dear Ones, Fragile and frail as I am now, I look back with beautiful memories of my mountain walks consumed by moments of Presence and Love. Though the shadows are lengthening and the candle is flickering, soon to be snuffed […]

The Fire of Peter’s Transformation

After the horrific death of Jesus, Peter descends into the fiery pain of the destruction of everything he believed in and had given his life to. All was lost, and the reality of his utter cowardice under trial was crushing […]

Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century anchoress who lived in England during the Crusades and the Black Plague in Europe. At the age of thirty, she received sixteen revelations from God and then spent the rest of her life getting […]

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