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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 17, 20222 min read
It's the Transformation, not the Rage
I sat with beautiful humans Sunday afternoon in preparation for a November Flow Game training. Each of us brought a question—ideally both...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 15, 20222 min read
Heart into Wholeness
My heart is full…empty…both at the same time. These last two weeks have been some of the fullest I’ve experienced in a long...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 8, 20222 min read
Reluctant Speech
He would not have spoken, had he not been prodded by an elder. Beloved Community can be presumed to be more idealism, after all, less...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 5, 20222 min read
Glimpses along the Way
Awareness of the song rose up quickly from my belly, startling me, even making me afraid. I saw Ms. Joyce Parrish O’Neal leaving the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Poking at the Foundations, II
Just because I question the use of scripture doesn’t mean I’m not surrounded by it in other ways. Often blessed by and deeply...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Poking at the Foundation(s)...
Perhaps this could start a series we might call poking at the foundations. I find myself returning to some really basic questions in the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 24, 20222 min read
Knowing Unknowing...
How is it possible to know how to begin grieving and not know how to begin, simultaneously? Cantankerous will? Fear? Resistance…? I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 22, 20222 min read
I learned a bit about grief today...
I wish I hadn’t, of course, but tonight, I can sense something Sacred in play… A deep and sudden sadness erupted in me this afternoon,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 21, 20222 min read
How Else to Free the Wolf?
So many strands are coalescing amidst my visceral response to Cheryl Johns’ words, cited yesterday. It’s a knot of Gordian proportion,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 20, 20222 min read
Despair, Grief, Subject, Restoration...?
Something is restless in my spirit today, though I am aware of a curious contentment too. Grieving, brooding, transforming are the words...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 15, 20222 min read
Godde-Whispering...the Sad-In-Between
I have been sitting with the arisings within fitness in faith and this strange sense of let him go. Part of me—do I have an...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 15, 20222 min read
Moving Beyond Exhaustion...
Rest is such a conflicted gift in my own life. You? Do you find it easy to rest in your home, in-between or amidst your work? Conflicted...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 13, 20222 min read
Can We Let Him Go? If He Asked...?
Yesterday’s post left off with a dense definition of "fitness in faith": risking doubt & curiosity into Godde’s scripturally-pointed...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 12, 20222 min read
Fitness in...Faith?
Last year, I heard a senior CrossFit Level 1 trainer tell his story of vocational discovery, which prompts me here to mine. Joe told us...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 11, 20222 min read
Begin WHAT...?!
I trust something is trying to get my attention when it comes around a third time. A girlfriend theology group I’ve been enjoying was...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 8, 20222 min read
It's not a privilege to be disconnected from your heart...
I was hosting a discernment-circle with two colleagues-friends who have shaped my life deeply these last years. Both African-American,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 4, 20222 min read
Let the Connection(s) Surprise You...
What is the sacred work becoming for a largely peripheral, conscious-feminine, near-crone Presbyterian like myself in an increasingly...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 3, 20222 min read
Conspire...
I keep noticing this word—some in its variations conspiracy and co-conspirator—about which a curiosity now arises. Are several of us...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 30, 20222 min read
Beautiful Waters... (Part 2)
Why am I—why are my cultural and social surroundings—so averse to a good, long cry? Or not even that long of one? In the privacy of my...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 30, 20222 min read
Inner Voices that Belittle--Pernicious or a Doorway...? (Part I)
I arrived home on the late-ish side last night, strangely sad after a day full of blessed conversations, discernments and celebrations. I...
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