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The Difference Between a Bonfire and a Steady Flame

In Kildare, Ireland, there was a flame that burned for over a thousand years.

Not a bonfire. Not a dramatic blaze that demanded attention and then burned out. A single, steady flame — tended by nineteen priestesses in rotating shifts, never allowed to go out.

St. Brigid's flame.

I carry a lineage...

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The River Doesn't Care About Your Intentions

There's a river of energy moving through your life.

Not as a metaphor. As an actual description of how things work.

This river is your life force — your attention and emotional energy — flowing constantly, shaping everything it touches. Like any river, its course is determined by where it's direct...

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Why Your Mind Can't Fix What Your Body Is Holding

You've done the work.

You've read the books. Done the journaling. Maybe even sat in therapy. You understand why you are the way you are. You can trace the patterns back to their origins. You can explain your triggers in articulate detail.

And yet.

You still react the same way when that thing happ...

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Your Life Is a Garden (And You've Been Growing Weeds)

Imagine your life as a garden.

Not as a metaphor. As an actual description of how things work.

Every day, you're planting seeds — through what you pay attention to, what you emotionally invest in, what you keep returning to in your mind. Some of these seeds you planted deliberately. But most of th...

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SHEKINAH — The Indwelling Presence

You woke up this morning and your mind was already running.

Before you made a conscious choice about anything, your attention had already gone somewhere — probably to your phone, to a worry, to a mental replay of something that happened yesterday or might happen tomorrow.

This matters more than yo...

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Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?
Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?

A response for those who are brave enough to ask the real question.

Here is the hard truth — and it may sting before it soothes:

God does not allow suffering in the way we imagine a parent allowing harm.
God loves us enough to give us choice — and to honor...

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The Path All Seekers Must Take

The Seven Pillars of Devotion: The Mystic’s Cycle of Initiation

Every mystic walks a path.

Not a straight line.
Not a ladder.
A cycle — one that moves through the body, the heart, the will, and the soul.

Across cultures, lineages, and centuries, this journey appears again and again. Different nam...

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What Is Devotion? (It’s Not What You Think)
If you hear the word devotion and picture kneeling, praying, or being “good” or “spiritual,” I want to gently set that image down.

Devotion isn’t something you do.
It’s something that’s already moving through you.

Devotion is the energy of your attention — the current that flows, moment by moment,...

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