Facing North Blog

  • What is Prayer

    by Robin McGauley
    What is prayer? You don’t need language for a conversation or the permission of a sabbath day. Let your words rest for awhile. Hold instead the sym...
    Posted in My Journey, Winter

  • The Expansive Possibility of Saying YES!

    by Robin McGauley
    Waiting behind every ‘NO’ is the expansive possibility of a ‘YES’. This is what I have been working on integrating into my being lately. We absolut...
    Posted in My Journey

  • What Can I Trust?

    by Robin McGauley
    What can I trust? I can trust the joy I feel when I see a cardinal or a bunny or a fox or an irisor a pair of swans. I can trust my feeling of d...
    Posted in My Journey

  • Black Lives Matter

    by Robin McGauley
    My spouse and I run every morning. We are both introspective people. It is a time of meditation for us. This past week, as I ran, I repeated names ...
    Posted in My Journey

  • How to Grieve

    by Robin McGauley
    How to Grieve Walk to where the willow hangs green over the bank of a moving river. Create a space to sit and listen to the echoes of yesterday. S...
    Posted in My Journey

  • The Gift of Uncertainty

    by Robin McGauley
    I have been holding a question – a wondering. Asking questions and listening for answers - it’s what I am invited to do by the one who, I believe, ...
    Posted in Blessing, My Journey

  • Introducing the 'Facing North' Blog

    by Robin McGauley
    Words keep bubbling up within me. They demand to surface and be shared.  Have you ever experienced the force of creativity well up within you witho...
    Posted in My Journey, Winter