Category Archives: 12-step spirituality

Addendum to “grudgual” post

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Mother Beth Tjoflat

This morning, while reading Alan Paton’s “Instrument of Thy Peace,” I ran across the following prayer, which is a fitting response to yesterday’s post… Thank you, Holy Spirit! “Lord, make me willing to be used by you.  May my knowledge … Continue reading →

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Grudgual: slow, incremental spiritual growth, initially resisted.

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Mother Beth Tjoflat

This morning a friend characterized his spiritual experience as being of the “grudgual” variety.  It took a very long time – and some pretty desperate circumstances – for him to get comfortable with the possibility of a loving, all-powerful, creative … Continue reading →

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A new name: living into ‘mother’

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Mother Beth Tjoflat

When I was a young girl in the Episcopal Church, there were never any females at the altar.  Acolytes were always boys and priests men.  The first time I saw a woman at the altar was strange and took getting … Continue reading →

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Beyond the wilderness

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Mother Beth Tjoflat

When I was a second-year student at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, one of the first year students arrived barefoot for the opening service of Morning Prayer.  He came to everything barefoot.  Initially this bothered me, bothered the “genteel” sensibility … Continue reading →

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