Heather Ruce

Let us return to the notion of fasting during the Lenten season. Whether you have chosen to give something up or not, it is good to...

We have begun the Lenten season. As mentioned last week, this is a season paralleling Jesus' 40 days spent in the desert after his...

As This week the season of Epiphanytide will give way to the season of Lent. It is a season paralleling Jesus' 40 days spent in the...

Last week, still in the season of Epiphanytide and present with the mystery of the incarnation, we talked about befriending our bodies...

As the season of Epiphanytide goes on, let us stay with the mystery of the incarnation, God taking human form and becoming flesh through...

As you know, some of the wisdom rhythms we can listen for are found in the seasonal rhythms within the liturgical year. The rhythm of...

As we continue to consider and listen for the ancient wisdom rhythms that live within us, and are in service of waking us up to a...

With Epiphany this past Friday, the same day as a full moon and shortly after the start of a new year, we are in a potent space of new...

As I mentioned last week, we are currently in the season of Christmastide leaning into these first 12 days between Christmas and...

This post comes to you after the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ into the world. The day, for the Christian wisdom tradition, in...

We are now in the fourth week of Advent, nearing Christmas. In her teachings from Exploring Advent through the Eyes of Jean Gebser and G....

We are now in the third week of Advent. This liturgical season is full of rich and meaningful themes. Themes of waiting, beholding,...

Yesterday marked the second Sunday of Advent in the Christian tradition and lineage. Not only is it a time to, in the words of Jan...

Today marks the first day of the season of Advent in the Christian tradition and lineage. It is a season of inner preparation, waiting,...

Last week we talked about lingering a little longer in the thin time of the fall Triduum and opening to the possibility of actually...

After being away in the rural mountains of North Carolina this week — with a small group of humans, an amazing amount of large vibrantly...

Just a quick note this week. . . Although we can never fully know the impact our work as contemplatives on the wisdom path has in our...

The wellspring of the precious spiritual raw materials, virtues and fruit [mercy, trust, courage, forgiveness, humility, faith, hope,...

Last week I spoke of our responsibility as students of wisdom and contemplatives to deepen our awareness of the our deepest Center of...

Whether you consider yourself to be a student of wisdom and a contemplative or not, you are or you would not find yourself reading these...

This week in one of the pauses I read from Cynthia Bourgeault's, “Spiritual Practices from the Gurdjieff Work, in which she likens...

We are ordinary contemplatives, mystics and saints. Our ongoing task is to allow our lives to be our monasteries, mountaintops and...

I am going to share another theme that I read in the Friday pause. Some of you may have already seen it but I thought it was worth...

We are alive, here, now, living in this world as it is—as well as spiritual world’s beyond—although we are only sometimes aware, so...