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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Everyday Saints
“…Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy,and to be able to share it with others.” Prayer for Good Humorby St. Thomas More I found myself falling down an internet rabbit hole. I was Googling information…
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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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