Heather Ruce

Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Valentine in the Western Christian tradition, a day which commemorates his death, and often focuses on...

Last week I was asked to be on a podcast with a friend and colleague to talk about conscious relationships. Conscious relationships are a...

As we move forward in Epiphanytide, a season of the Christic light revealing and making itself known in our embodied lives, I would like...

The season of Epiphanytide is still amongst us. Within this season also falls Martin Luther King Day. We must never forget that systemic...

I hope that you are enjoying leaning into this season of Epiphanytide and finding ways to connect with what is good, true and beautiful...

As the new year continues to meet us, so does the season called Epiphanytide in the Christian tradition - the days following Epiphany -...

The earth has made her full orbit around the sun. Thus we find ourselves at the beginning of a new year. It is a wonderful and...

Advent has been a season of waiting and preparing not only for holiday gatherings and celebrations but for the Christ to be born once...

This fourth Sunday of Advent in the sacred darkness brings us closer to the birthing and delivery of the Christic which has been...

Today is the third Sunday of Advent and we continue alongside Mary, waiting and tending in the beautiful sacred darkness as we carry the...

We carry on in winter, today the second Sunday of Advent in the Christian tradition. A season in which we can accompany and be...

It is winter time here and in many parts of the world. The barren trees, brown patches on the ground, animals hibernating, plants lying...

We are entering thanksgiving week here in the United States. With the complicated history in mind, wounds still fresh in the land and in...

We have been focusing on the essence of ourselves that is unable to be destroyed. The golden kernel, the invincible heart, the center...

Coming through the Fall Triduum this past week as well as a weekend focused on mystical hope I am so grateful for the wisdom teachings...

Here we are on Halloween or All Saints’ Eve. The thin time of the Fall Triduum has begun and we can enter the interior of our hearts...

It is finally beginning to feel like fall is in the air here in Southern California. I once heard and often joke that living here we can...

As we stay committed to our practice of centering prayer and other types of silent meditation, we trust that we are coming to more fully...

Help is all around us when we have eyes to see. Help definitely does not always come in the form or timing that we want it to. Help does...

When strengthening our nervous systems, there is both effort and letting go required. We do need to work with our attention, not simply...

Last week I talked about strengthening our nervous systems to be able to bear this individual and collective free fall we are in the...

This week I was reminded of Logion 2 from the Gospel of Thomas as well as the ongoing wisdom invitation to expand our awareness and...

This continues to be a profound time of polarization and uncertainty biosphere-ically, politically, socially, physically, economically,...

Other than recognizing Labor Day as part of a long weekend when summer begins to come to a close ushering in the fall season, I have to...