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Postcard from (East) Germany: Between a prayer house and an apple tree.
Whatever you are carrying, love carries it first.
In Between: A Midweek Blessing from the Road
🌿 (Mid)Weekly Blessing: Weeding and Wondering
"Do you want to be made well?" Stirred waters and memorial yards
„It is sad that people die and don‘t resurrect immediately.“
When the Hallelujahs are Fading.
Giving Life: On the Poignancy of Motherhood.
Midweek Blessing: For the ones who tried to come but were turned away
Retreating to the Garden. Monastic Gardens as places of nature, nurture, contemplation and healing.
Treat yourself to a Mother's Day Spring Retreat at the monastery.
Gardening as a practice of “sacred rebellion.”
Wrapping up the passion season.
Praising Spring's greening with Hildegard of Bingen
Through the tomb. A Holy Friday meditation.
Maundy Thursday: Come to the Table!
Passion Wednesday: Leaning into Mercy
Passion Week Tuesday: Cradling your heart
Passion Week Monday: Gathering together
Entering passion week in a pained world.
"Who am I?" A Bonhoeffer poem on the day of his death.
Lent #4: Retreating to the Wild.
Lent #3: The Power of Communal Lament
A Lullaby for Anxious Souls: Finding Peace in Fearful Times.
Tending our Sorrows: Passion Week Consolations 2025.
Fresh Snow and Solitude. Pondering RM Rilke’s invitation.
Letters to America #4: Is the darkness the darkness of the tomb or the womb?
It Has Been Dark Before: MLK's recipe for love.
Join our End of Winter Solitude 2025
Taking refuge in an old Berlin church where Bonhoeffer once taught.
On Thresholds and new beginnings.
On sunrise rituals, small acts of care, and finding light in dark times.
On ice flowers, temper tantrums, and what I learned from MLK about being human:
The pilgrimage blues and the peeling of Self: A conversation between Kierkegaard and Richard Rohr.
Beyond Epiphany: Reading the wise (Wo)men journey inwardly with Hildegard of Bingen.
Wrapping up the journey. A Blessing and a Farewell
12th Day of Christmas: Surprised by Joy ✨
The 11th Day of Christmas: An Epiphany Retreat
The 10th Day of Christmas: Deepening Self