• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

The Hidden Life Awakened

Body, Mind, Spirit—Healing from depression

  • Home
  • Writings
  • About
  • Events
  • Inspiration
    • Daily Meditations
    • Images of Betty
    • Videos of Betty
    • Readings
    • On Retreat
  • Resources
  • Donate
  • Store
  • Subscribe

Transformation

The Two Inescapable Tomb Times

Edvard Munch. Melancholy. Art Museum of Bergen. I am alone, waiting in the tomb. There is nothing else I can do. I try to believe the darkness and stillness here will allow something new to be resurrected on the other […]

Read More about The Two Inescapable Tomb Times

The Darkness of the Tomb

Edouard Manet. The Dead Christ with Angels. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Holy Saturday—the quietest of all days. The tomb that held Your broken body was dark and silent. Heaven held its breath. A shimmering stilling making ready for glorious resurrection […]

Read More about The Darkness of the Tomb

Jesus In The Wilderness

Rembrandt. Head of Christ. Philadelphia Art Museum. It is Lent again, Jesus; the season that summons me into the wilderness with You and into the humiliation of heartfelt repentance. It is a call to stretch out my hand and grab hold […]

Read More about Jesus In The Wilderness

Transform Your World From Within

Georgia O’Keefe. Lake George Reflection. Love that transforms can only come from within. Our heart is at the center of our being human. There, our deepest thoughts, intuitions, and emotions find their source. It is also there that we are […]

Read More about Transform Your World From Within

September 12

The transformation we all long for occurs in the intimate embrace of our Divine Lover, in the still, hidden places of the soul. ~Betty

View Meditation about September 12

The Science of the Psalms

Many thousands of years ago, every joyous, negative, fearful, and even murderous emotion of the human heart was put to music in the majestic poetry of the Psalms. Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and American writer, said, “The Psalms are more […]

Read More about The Science of the Psalms

April 25

We have to learn to trust the darkness of new birth. We don’t always see it but new life is being birthed; it is underneath the darkness and pain. ~Betty

View Meditation about April 25

December 14

To shed our false self and take on a new awareness, we have to consent to the relentless struggle between the overwhelming fears that paralyze us and the love that enlarges us beyond measure. It is in the struggle that […]

View Meditation about December 14
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

We Would Love to Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Email

Receive our weekly inspirational messages

  • Contact, Terms & Privacy

Copyright © 2023 · The Hidden Life Awakened