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Deb Rollison: When Spirit talked, she listened
Deb Rollison in her classroom Barbara: Deb, you are a graduate of the MS/PhD program – why did you choose Loyola and pastoral counseling? Deb: Since 2004, I had been engaged in the work of...
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius In pastoral counseling at Loyola, students invest long hours preparing for the diversity of clients who we will...
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Answering Prayers 101: Angels In Training
As a child of God, I am a selfish little person. When confronted with the troubles of another, I might shoot off a quick “dear God, help that person” or “send me some wisdom here, please,” but, for the...
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Christmas: The Season for Meaning Making
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11) This season is all about meaning making. Whatever one might believe, this month calls forth our need...
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Reflections and Resolutions: Guiding the year ahead with lessons from before
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke I want to believe that I am consciously using every lesson I...
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Self-user friendly
“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.” — James Joyce...
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Prayed for
Somebody must have prayed for me. As I listen to my clients’ stories, I know I have been blessed and prayed for. I never could have landed here on my own. My story is no more and no less than their...
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Chin up, graduated
There are a hundred thousand songs about saying goodbye . . . or not saying goodbye . . . or don’t say goodbye . . . I’m trying to keep my chin up, JoAnn, but I feel this little empty space where...
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Seeking Silence
“What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi Silence calls to me. There’s an oxymoron for you. Here’s another one: Thomas Keating says that silence is “God’s first language.” I automatically equate language...
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From Here to There
Someone is praying me to another path. My path at Loyola has ended its long loving curve in my life. Finding my way here was an adventure in miracles. Most of those miracles occurred behind my back and...
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