by Jesua | May 8, 2022 | Blog, Featured 2
Seven years ago on Mother’s Day eve, when my kids were ten and six years old, I decided to sit in ceremony with a dear medicine woman sister. It was just the two of us. In my fantasy, it would be a sweet, nurturing Mother’s Day gift to myself, a chance to open my...
by Jesua | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog, Featured 2, Featured Read
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” —Marianne Williamson Forgiveness is a fearless teacher. It came to me in one of my...
by Jesua | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog, Featured 2, Featured Read
This morning, as I awakened alone inside the quiet warmth of my bed, I found myself contemplating the habitual way we brace ourselves against loss. I was considering a dear friend of mine, who is facing a particularly grueling passage of loss, inside a lifetime full...
by Jesua | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog, Featured 2, Featured Read
My muse recently returned to me, after an excruciatingly long hiatus. For many, many months I could barely write a word. I felt zero inspiration, no assignments from God, a complete lack of any creative connection between my heart, mind and voice. I could still feel a...
by Jesua | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Featured 2, Featured Read
Full disclosure: I share this tender, intimate story that is really my son Ezra’s story, with his generous permission and blessing. At first he wasn’t so sure he wanted it to be shared, given the vulnerable nature of its content. But when I explained how lacking I was...
by Jesua | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, Featured 2
The summer I was nineteen, I had a close encounter with death. I was entering my junior year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and had decided to spend my summer in the remote coastal village of Mendocino, California. My tiny, rustic studio cottage was only a...
