NICKY TEMPLE | SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
Meditations
A grateful day meditation (by Brother David Steindl-Rast).
Not just another day in your life but the one day that's given to you - today, a gift. A beautiful meditation from Brother David Steindl-Rast on being grateful. We have just one day, THIS day and if we have eyes to see there is blessing all around us. There is so...
Advent 2020: Week Four
"Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” This offering is taken from an online advent retreat I'm hosting this year. The recording is one reading from Isaiah and a Lectio Divina on a short poem. I also offer the additional...
A grounding meditation: held in the womb of God.
Enveloped, safe, nourished, sustained Sitting comfortably but also attentively with your feet connected with the floor. Take some deep wide breaths, letting the belly loosen and expand with every inhale and then exhaling fully. Repeat a few more deep breaths keeping...
Advent 2020: Week Three
"...a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit..” This offering is taken from an online advent retreat I'm hosting this year. The recording is one reading from Isaiah and a Lectio Divina on a...
Advent 2020: Week Two
"In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” This offering is taken from an onine advent retreat I'm hositng this year. The recording is the Lectio Divina and reflection but below I also offer the additional...
Advent 2020: Week One
"And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.” This offering is taken from an onine advent retreat I'm hositng this year. The recording is the Lectio Divina and reflection but below I also offer the additional lectionary readings for week one. If you'd like to...
A reflection on compassion
We are one with the love that identifies itself with us no matter what From the book Christian Mediation by James Finley the words of this reflection offer hope and make a way for us to enter into and live from a place of deeper compassion both towards ourselves,...
The Sacrament of Letting Go: a contemplation as summer gives way to Autumn.
Slowly...she celebrated the sacrament of letting go This contemplation is offered as an invitation to let go as the season of Autumn arrives with its colder, shorter days… The Sacrament of Letting Go from ‘Seasons of your Heart’ by Macrina Wiederkehr I worry too...
What is meditation? A reflection and a practice
Awakened to our eternal oneness with GodWith help from the book Christian Meditation by James Finley. Meditation is a word that we hear a lot these days. It can be applied in many different ways to many different forms of spirituality. Within the Christian faith,...
A Majestic Meditation
God's splendour is a tale that is told, his testament is written in the stars This mediation comes as a Lectio Divina (to know more see my blog explaining what this is entitled What is Lectio Divina? I have taken word for word a blog from The Daily Meditations from...
Walking: rest for the soul, joy for the heart
One step at a time I recently brought a small reflection on Erling Kagge’s book on silence. He also wrote a similarly small book on Walking and today I want to reflect on it as it too contains some great treasure. I will do this alongside my own thoughts. No stranger...
Being present to feelings: a reflection and meditation
Be present to feelings with compassionA meditation on making space for feelings. This is a follow up from a blog written a couple of weeks ago so it may help to read that if you haven’t already. In Spiritual Direction sessions I’m often inviting people to be with...