Posts by Julia

God Is My Being

Praying for the Dead What I mean by “the dead” are those people on Earth who have lived in such a deep pit of darkness for so long that it has become their home.   My question is, How do we pray for those who have lost their ability to know the truth about life?  That there is a sun.  Deep green forests.  Other people who have never lived in the deep.  I am trained to my bones to know that there is only one unforgivable...

Graymoor Spiritual Life Center

Graymoor Spiritual Life Center Garrison, New York Renew Your Spirit The Graymoor Spiritual Life Center is a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, dedicated to the reconciliation, or at-one- ment, of people with themselves, each other, and God. The Center sponsors and hosts many retreats, conferences, days of renewal and recollection, pilgrimages, meetings and other events. Opened in 1970, the Graymoor Spiritual Life...

The Good Listener by James F. Sullivan

The Miracle of Understanding I believe that listening is the most important tool we have for healing.  I respect it so much that I am thrilled when I come across a book on it.  This book was recommended by a teacher of a Christian healing prayer course.  And I was delighted at the thought that I could order it, receive it, and sit down in a comfortable chair with it to savor its contents. Running down the right side of the cover of...

Prayer To Guardian Angels

O Angel guardian of my right hand, Attend thou me this night, Rescue thou me in the battling floods, Array me in thy linen, for I am naked; Succor me, for I am feeble and forlorn. Steer thou my coracle in the crooked eddies, Guide thou my step in gap and in pit, Guard thou me in the treacherous turnings, And save thou me from the scaith* of the wicked, Save thou me from scaith this night. Drive thou from me the taint of pollution,...

A Woman’s Place

This introduction on women begins with one of my lessons.  It is called, The Source and the Orbit.  The essence of the lesson is that in a relationship between two people, one, the orbit, is out in the greater world gathering energy that is returned to the source who transforms this energy into that which bring sustenance to them both.  This can be crudely expressed as, “You bring home the bacon, and I’ll fry it up in a...