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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 19, 20232 min read
Counterbalance
I received a gift of counterbalance in my decade-long wrestling with/amidst my root tradition’s obsessions with scripture–its tendency to...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Letting Go of Lasso...Slowly
Rarely do I find myself in popular-culture media discourses these days, but I am joining my voice with those grieving the end of Ted...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 6, 20232 min read
What No One Is Interested In...Forgiving
Desmond and Mpho Tutu suggest in their The Book of Forgiving that the pain/suffering in our lives presents us with a choice either for...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 1, 20232 min read
A Life That is Holy
This Here Flesh has enlivened and even shaped some of my thinking/feeling in these last months. Author Cole Arthur Riley rises in...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 26, 20232 min read
Saying YES in the (Un)Staying
I have been immersed this week in unbelievably numerous pages of my own writing, listening for “energy points” and strands of topics...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 20, 20232 min read
Who Do You Want to Be?
Brian and I watched a new Hannah Gadsby special a couple nights ago. She spoke of the fits she would get into, panicked by the question...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 16, 20232 min read
Honoring (by) Not Staying
Anyone alongside me these last several years knows my (seemingly unending) ruminations with the word stay. What’s with the staying?...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 16, 20232 min read
Shifting the Story - Part One
I come from belonging in the cosmos…and so do you. This phrase mimics the impish wisdom of a friend, LaTanya Wilson, who is known for...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 8, 20232 min read
Liveliness...Viriditas
What’s keeping you lively these days? I often ask this of someone when faced with the challenges of small-talk in Midwestern-niceties....
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 6, 20232 min read
Cosmological Winks
In 2014, I was led to a natal-chart reading, an intriguing glimpse of the sky from the day I was born. It had strange phrases like Sun...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 4, 20232 min read
Grief...First in a Series?
Grief is becoming a doorway into deeper freedom, belonging… Fire&Water voices, particularly Quanita, community mama I’ve written about...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 3, 20232 min read
Part II: Elder, Mama, and...
What does the word Mama signify, given I don’t use it in any of my familiar lines? My own mother was first Mommy, then Mom. She’s been...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 2, 20232 min read
I cannot call her Elder...
…a clear knowing, even as it seemed to threaten belonging in a circle community I’ve come to cherish. Surprising in its resolution, it...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Apr 26, 20232 min read
At the Heart of Bewilderment
In ironies of ironies, I’m beginning to bring a more systematic sensibility to my current fascinations with bewilderment, immersed in my...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Apr 9, 20232 min read
TipToeing at the Tomb
Is this week Jesus-focused for you? a dear friend asked me yesterday. She knows me well...that these days of Holy Week are a time of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Apr 2, 20232 min read
Tiptoeing into Holy Week...Forgiveness?
This morning, I awoke acutely aware of it being the formal start of Holy Week, traditionally a thin-space time of high intention for me,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Apr 1, 20232 min read
Move Twelve Years In...
I found myself in such unexpected delight yesterday, in the strangest forum you could imagine (if you’ve tracked my journey with...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Mar 16, 20232 min read
Maybe I AM Writing Another Book...
I am beginning to realize I’m writing the same book over and over again. The time in my life, the community shaping it, the felt...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Mar 13, 20232 min read
The Way as an Archetype?
I learned something about my own work this week, with startlement and sacred delight. Something encouraged me to pick up Erich Neumann’s...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Mar 9, 20232 min read
Words Matter...Elder & Spirit-Friend
As I am deepening awareness and confidence in the sacred work I am called to contribute/offer, I find myself in a dissonance of words. A...
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