Facing Your Fear: Creative Meets the Spiritual

Facing your fear is a part of life these days. You find yourself distracted, unable to focus. Unable to work. To write. To do much of anything. Using an old pattern of thinking and analyzing things, you may view this pandemonium as avoidance and not facing your fear....

Padre Pio’s Prayer for when you’re exhausted

Have you ever heard of St. Padre Pio? I did not know of him until a kind friend, Shiela, introduced me to the magazine that tells of his many miracles. Padre Pio was a Capuchin monk born Francesco Forgione in Pietrelcina, located in southern Italy on May 25, 1887. His...