Spiritual Directions Links: 3-17-2025
For the past 10+ years I’ve met with my “spiritual director,” Curt Gruel, every month to discuss how God is working in my life. Curt became a spiritual director through the Heartpaths OKC organization. These are some of the links and resources mentioned during our conversation today that I want to follow up on, and may be of interest to others.
#book2read: “The Overstory: A Novel” by Richard Powers. (added to my Amazon reading wish list)
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of – and paean to – the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
The overstory. (n.d.). Goodreads. Retrieved March 17, 2025, from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory
#book2read: “Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are” by J Matthews.
From the description on Amazon:
“Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are” is perfect for anyone who is curious about nonduality’s impact on life as it is lived every day. How can a clear understanding of nondual philosophy change how we experience our lives?
“Radically Condensed Instructions” helps us use Nonduality’s basic theory – that nothing truly exists outside of the ‘here and now’ – to radically deepen our practice of present-moment awareness or “being here, now!” When we truly understand that open and clear Awareness is really all there is, we can make an uncompromising commitment to the present moment without the distractions of distorted thinking, artificial comparisons and impossible ideals.
The sermon message by Rev. Joseph Alsay from March 16, 2025 at St Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church in Oklahoma City.