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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Befriending Silence
“Speech is silver, silence is golden.” Proverb “What on earth are you searching for?” A close family member asked this question of me and, I have to admit, the question took me by surprise. I didn’t realize I was searching for something. I guess it’s a personality trait. The Enneagram test shows me as a…
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A Tale of Haunted Charleston, SC
When it’s the dead of night and you find yourself walking along cobblestone streets in Charleston, South Carolina, it is easy to believe in ghosts. And Charleston certainly has it’s share of ghost stories. So, when my husband and I found ourselves there on Halloween week of all weeks, I signed us up for a…
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“The Jesus who doesn’t let us rest”
“The more I reflect on Jesus, the more I meditate on him, the more images occur to me. I never get to the end of things with Jesus. It’s important for me to set Jesus alongside all my experiences, all that I read, see, get to know.” Anselm Grun I was reflecting on one…
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Practicing the Fruits of the Spirit: A Book Reflection
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 I came across the book, Neuroscience and the Fruit of the Spirit, and the title intrigued me. Bryan Spoon edifies how our brain is literally wired towards God.…
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