Katie Rea’s Writings
“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
Our inner life shapes our outer journey. This truth echoes through Gandhi’s words, inviting us to notice how the smallest movements of the soul become the path we walk.
Writings
The Royal Cross: A Quarterly Magazine of the Order of the Daughters of the King.
Finding Our Voice: Listening, Witnessing, and the work of Clarity in the Order, page 12. An exploration of how attentive presence helps us discern and claim our true voice.
Unexpected Lessons of Grief from a Disney Movie, page 8, *Anna correction. A gentle reflection on how a Disney film unexpectedly illuminated the quiet, complicated movements of grief through Anna’s journey.
Sacred Moments: Living the Vows That Called Me, page 7. A reflection on the sacred work of honoring the commitments that shape our spiritual path.
Bearing Fruit Far From Home, page 16. A message on the surprising fruit that emerges when God calls us into new and unfamiliar spaces.
My blog posts by topic:
- Dreamwork
- Health and Wellness
- Reading/Books
- Self-help/Encouragement
- Spiritual Direction/Religion
- Travel
- writing
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Being with God Versus Doing for God
“It’s not what you do for God; it’s what God has done for you. You switch from trying to love God to just letting God love you. And it’s at that point you fall in love with God.” Richard Rohr Richard Rohr’s daily meditations arrive in my inbox. He is a favorite author of mine,…
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Books of Wisdom
In our book club, we each get a turn to choose a book to share with the group. Despite my private feeling of the books-did I like it or not? – there is wisdom which can be found in its pages. Books can have heart and soul, irrepressible truth and lessons of love. I felt…
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Seeking a Relationship with God, the Source of Living Water
“Everyone needs thirty minutes of prayer a day, except when they are busy. Then they need an hour.” -St. Francis de Sales I felt the Holy Spirit stirring me to write about a devotion I listened to earlier this week.  For the Lenten season, I’m participating in the Hallow’s Lent Pray40 Community Prayer Challenge for…
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The Crutch of Perfectionism
“When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!” — BrenĂ© Brown When life gets tough or interesting, I write in a journal. I came across a prayer fifteen years ago which solved a current dilemma. I have years’ worth of journals I have kept and occasionally review…
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The Benefits of Silent Retreats
“All the wonders of life are already here. They’re calling you. If you can listen to them, you will be able to stop running. What you need, what we all need, is silence. Stop the noise in your mind in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard. Then you can begin to…
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