Step Nine – Make direct amends to fellow writers, publishers, illustrators, family or readers that I may have harmed wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Last week we worked on reparation. Did you make amends for your wrongs? Did you find creative ways to […]
The Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Nine – Make direct amends to fellow writers, publishers, illustrators, family or readers that I may have harmed wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. During our last step, I asked you to make a list of all those you may have harmed or […]
The Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Eight – Make a list of all the people we had harmed with our writing or in our writing career. All the people we had ignored, betrayed, belittled or just not loved as Christians are called to do in imitation of Christ. We have learned to spend time in […]
The Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Seven – Humbly ask God to remove all our shortcomings as writers, allowing Him to cleanse us of our worldly desires. Are we humble? Are we humble enough as writers to develop a truly deep relationship with God? We know our shortcomings as writers both professionally and personally. […]
Twelve Steps to Being a Spiritual Writer
Step Six – We’re entirely ready to have God remove all the defects of character that affect our writing and our writing career Let’s find a place where we can talk to God, and most of all, listen to Him. For months we have been working toward becoming the spiritual […]
The Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Five- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Let’s take a look at our wrongs as writers. Not the wrongs we may or may not have done to others, but the wrongs we have done to ourselves. Writing is a […]
The Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Five- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. We are blessed to be Christians. We are especially blessed to be Catholics. Our Mother, the Church, guides us by the teachings of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus, who created us and […]
The Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Four – Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves as writers and of our writing. We have been examining our resentments, fears and harms. So far this has been a personal journey that explores our personality, character and spiritual life. This week, let’s look at how […]
Twelve Steps to being a Spiritual Writer
Step Four – Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves as writers and of our writing. Our writing is a direct reflection of the way we live our life. It doesn’t matter whether we write science fiction or theology books, the way we think and the way we […]
Into the Way of Peace, by Karen Kelly Boyce
Into the Way of Peace blends the mystical with the mysterious. While a blizzard swirls around an inner city church, a desperate few pass within. Some seek shelter from the storm. Others desire consolation because of life’s overwhelming burdens. One young man hopes to escape a police manhunt. Fr. D’Angelico […]