Katie Rea’s Blog
I am currently continuing my education in Spiritual Direction with the goal to help others grow in their well-being and faith. The desire to write has been with me since childhood, and I feel it is time for me to get back to basics. My previous ten years of employment involved social work in the healthcare sector and non-profit work with the homeless and those going through recovery. The overlap of these two different fields had a commonality: helping people analyze their current situations and helping them realize healthier life choices were within their reach.
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
MA Religion from Trevecca University – Nashville
BA Communications/ Minor English Writing and Composition from University of Tennessee – Chattanooga
Certificate of Continuing Education from Education for Ministry (EfM)
Vice-President, Diocese of Tennessee: The Order of the Daughters of the King
Vice-President, St. Elizabeth of Hungary Chapter, The Order of the Daughters of the King, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church-Nashville
For more information of the Order of the Daughters of the King feel free to also visit the national page: The Order of the Daughters of the King, Inc. (doknational.org)
“The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.”
Thomas à Kempis
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Create a Yearly Reading Plan
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles W. Eliot There is a myriad of reading challenges out there. As I have previously mentioned, my favorite is the Goodreads challenge which allows me to pick the number of…
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The Fruit of Spirit Within Us
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23, NIV We had a tiny strip of a vineyard on the farm where I grew up. My dad and I were much better at farming vegetables than tending a vineyard. The birds or other…
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From Darkness to the Dawn
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.” Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird. This story was so personal to me, I was afraid to share it, but felt the call to do so. Years ago, I felt as…
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2022 Reading Challenge in Review
Anyone who know me knows I have a love for books. I have also since found reading books and collecting books are two separate hobbies. We have actually run out of bookshelf space this year and have tried to drop off books to Little Free Libraries in our area. I have trouble letting go as…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
A devotional poem for Christmas. “A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour” by Ben Jonson I sing the birth was born tonight,The Author both of life and light; The angels so did sound it,And like the ravished shepherds said,Who saw the light, and were afraid, Yet searched, and true they found it. The Son of God,…
In Thought, Word & Deed 
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