As you travel along the spiritual path, you are bound to have troubles, in fact it's part of the journey.

Locally Sourced Spirituality

19 Mystic Ring of Sacred Fire

I have invited you on a spiritual journey. Just know I don’t claim any special knowledge or ability. I am a fellow traveler along the way. I have been on the Journey for a while and you have been on the journey for a while. So, we can be helpful to each other as we seek the divine together. Just as important as the insight and practicality of what we can offer each other there is another source of help. There is a source of spiritual aid if you are open to it. As we seek the divine we paradoxically take the divine with us and if we attune our attention properly we can be guided by it.

Spiritual Aid

The spiritual Journey is one that leads to freedom, meaning and purposeful living. It's not a product to be purchased, a destination to be reached or a skill to be learned; its is an ongoing movement toward what is good and true everywhere.

S2 Episode 1: Invitation to a Journey

This is the conclusion of my conversation with Elise Carr, the woman behind Stella Muse.

Episode 16: Elise Carr pt. 2

My conversation with Elise Carr about being your authentic self, spiritual guidance and sacred sexuality.

Episode 15: Elise Carr pt. 1

The things we do to love, heal, include can be flawed and ineffective. But we need to do them anyway. Michigan State Football may not be your spiritual-cup-of-tea, but the good parts may be a glimpse of where we may want to go.

Episode 14: Lovingly Imperfect

We are equipped for this life by our experiences and our choices. We choose teachers and masters along the way. What does it look like to have Jesus as our Master?

Episode 13: Get in the Game pt. 2 (Sitting at the feet of a master)

We are sidelined in the game of life because we allow it; because it's easy. There's a better way.

Episode 12: Get in the Game pt. 1 Distractions

Learning to "read" your geography with a spiritual lense can be a helpful tool in your spiritual development.

Episode 11: My Tree of Life

The sacred space you may be looking for is within the boundaries of your own body. Once you find that the space between you and others becomes an extension of that space.

Episode 10: Sacred Spaces

We should not deny the difficult parts of our human lives. We need to experience all parts of our lives with open awareness to live authentic, fully-human lives.

Episode 9: Living with Symbols of Life and of Death

We learn what we really believe when our faith is pushed to the extremes.

Episode 8: Give Me Shelter!

Exploring the concept of holy or sacred time through our religious and secular holidays.

Episode 7: Holy Days

We can rest on what is true and eternal as we mourn what is broken and temporary.

Episode 6: Music and Manchester

Connection to the eternal is available constantly yet we consistently miss it because we may be looking for the wrong things. It's in the everyday; it's in our time and in our context. Once we begin to recognize it we should acknowledge it and mark it.

Episode 5: Recognizing God (pt. 2)

You don't have to go anywhere to find the divine, it's right under your feet. Cultivating practices and changing perspectives to see God in the 'everyday.'