Joni Woelfel

Soul Seeing: Joni Woelfel reflects on the spiritual growth that occurs as we look through the eyes of the soul when we are going through a season of diminishment.

Book review: An obvious labor of love by the late Brian Doyle, Cat's Foot is about finding the sacred in the ordinary, forging a sense of wonder through minute exquisite details, and facing the truths and cruelty of war.

Soul Seeing: For many years now, I have pondered the story of the turtles, wondering why it moved people so. I decided it was because of the happy ending. Life is filled with challenges, hardships, suffering and loss for all of us; we've all known heartbreak. 

Soul Seeing: Reflective writers are interested in seeing connections everywhere. They are in tune with colors, scents, music, feelings, emotions, nature — details!

Soul Seeing: If love is a lantern in our hand, I see the true spirit of ambition as the keeper of the flame — an eternal energy in our hearts put there by God to encourage, guide and draw us forward all the days of our lives, good, bad, light, dark, and everything in between.

Soul Seeing: Dormancy, waiting, blossoming, withering, dying and beginning again is the journey of God being reborn in the crib of our hearts all our lives through.

Soul Seeing: For many of us, this is evidence of the divine presence always there, filling the spaces between control, surrender and letting go all our lives through.