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About
What We're About
Who We Are
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Spiritual Growth Blog
Spiritual Direction Blog
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Upcoming Events
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What Is Spiritual Direction?
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Scott McRae
May 2, 2025

Are You Getting Enough Emptiness?

Scott McRae
May 2, 2025

Emptiness is not something most of us seek out. In fact, we avoid it by filling our spare moments with noise, tasks, or distractions. Yet, in my own journey, I've found that the discomfort of emptiness can be the very space where something deeper is born…

Scott McRae
April 18, 2025

What Kind of Tired Are You?

Scott McRae
April 18, 2025

As I opened up a book during my morning centering time, I yawned, feeling that kind of waking-up morning tiredness where we are slowly emerging into a new day. It was fitting that my reading for the day was on the theme of tiredness…

Scott McRae
April 4, 2025

How to Be with Privilege in a Painful World

Scott McRae
April 4, 2025

It’s common in groups that I lead for people to raise the question about whether it’s OK to be doing spiritual reflection when there’s so much pain in the world. Is it responsible to be tending to the spirit, or is that just another form of oppressive privilege?

Scott McRae
March 14, 2025

Those We Admire Are A Mirror

Scott McRae
March 14, 2025

Soul-searching can also be external reflection. Our spiritual reflection can shift outward to the people we most admire. When we are deeply drawn to someone, we have an important mirror to an important part of ourselves…

Scott McRae
March 7, 2025

Kindling Divine Intimacy

Scott McRae
March 7, 2025

When we actively nurture our relationship with the Divine, the gifts of this connection are surprising and many. Here’s what we can practice, and how it can build Divine intimacy…

Scott McRae
February 27, 2025

4 Super Powers for When Hard Times Hit

Scott McRae
February 27, 2025

We all have within us the keys to a life of freedom and fulfillment. Here are four spiritual keys that can open doors and help us live amidst the overwhelm, triggers, and trauma…

Scott McRae
February 14, 2025

The Question That Changes Everything

Scott McRae
February 14, 2025

This question wakes up your inner observer. It elevates you into your higher mind. I opens a space for something empowering to come in…

Scott McRae
January 31, 2025

Life Reminds Us to Let Go

Scott McRae
January 31, 2025

Over and over we contend with things not going our way. Occasionally it’s good to push back and shape events. More often, it’s good to observe, let go, and listen for our wiser presence within…

Scott McRae
January 16, 2025

From Spiritually Malnourished to Spiritually Fulfilled

Scott McRae
January 16, 2025

We all suffer from spiritual malnutrition at times. Unfortunately, we often wait until a crisis hits before we do anything about it. Just as we need daily food to nourish our bodies, we need regular spiritual food to nourish our souls…

Scott McRae
January 9, 2025

Tuning into Clean, Clear Empowerment

Scott McRae
January 9, 2025

Day to day, we spend much of our time in the static of our own inner thoughts, fears, disappointments, hopes, fantasies, plans, critiques, judgments, etc. Letting go is a way we tune into a clear channel in ourselves. Here’s a practice that it works for me…

Scott McRae
January 3, 2025

A Big Misunderstanding About Letting Go

Scott McRae
January 3, 2025

It’s easy for us to think that letting go is about sweeping the hard stuff under the rug. But in his book Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, David R. Hawkins presents a very different point of view…

Scott McRae
December 27, 2024

When it’s NOT Time to Let Go

Scott McRae
December 27, 2024

Like all spiritual truths, letting go needs to be understood paradoxically. How do we sort out when it’s time to let go and NOT let go?

Scott McRae
December 13, 2024

When All Else Fails, Unplug It

Scott McRae
December 13, 2024

The path of spiritual unplugging is called “letting go.” There have been countless times when I have felt in the vice grip of overwhelm or frustration. Then, with practice, I have learned to flip the letting-go switch in a way that changes the moment profoundly…

Scott McRae
November 25, 2024

Be Tender & Gentle with Yourself

Scott McRae
November 25, 2024

This is a time to be tender and gentle with yourself. This tender, gentle reassurance is deep soul work. It reaches down into your inner resources and provides a healing touch. This simple work is life-changing…

Scott McRae
November 21, 2024

The 7 Sacred Journeys Group

Scott McRae
November 21, 2024

The Sacred Journeys Group is for people who want a clearer map for their spiritual life. This map tracks 7 pathways, and each draws us more deeply into spiritual experience and awareness…

Scott McRae
November 15, 2024

Staying In Your Lane When Things are Crazy

Scott McRae
November 15, 2024

Finding our lane is about tapping into the potential our unique inner knowing. Then we use that knowing to identify the work and contributions that we are called to do, and not do, in this world. Staying in our lane is about sorting what is and is not ours to do…

Scott McRae
October 31, 2024

Enduring Wisdom for Overwhelming Times

Scott McRae
October 31, 2024

When things seem to be falling apart around us, we can reconnect and find stability through the ancient, wise guidance of the Tao Te Ching. Here are a few morsels of this spiritual super food…

Scott McRae
October 18, 2024

A New Mind for a New Age

Scott McRae
October 18, 2024

Our world is notifying us from all directions that our human perspectives are outdated, that we need to step into a truly new age. As a species, we are seriously overdue for a consciousness software update…

Scott McRae
October 10, 2024

It Doesn't Have to Be So Hard

Scott McRae
October 10, 2024

It's times like these, with the election weighing on us, that the Tao Te Ching is especially relevant. The ancient wisdom book can be our antidote to overwhelm, reminding us that life doesn’t have to be so hard...

Scott McRae
October 4, 2024

Living well in Overwhelming (and Election) Times: Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching

Scott McRae
October 4, 2024

The Tao Te Ching is spiritual super food. It invites us into a here and now presence that doesn't change external circumstances but helps us to hold them differently...

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