Soul Listening-Emily Peasley

02/09/2026

Praying with Our Dreams Retreat

Come join us at the Creighton University Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa for a weekend of prayer, dream work and community. We will spend time during the weekend engaging in dreamwork (group and 1 on 1) and exploring various topics around dreamwork including prayer, archetypes and shadow. No experience is necessary, only a desire to explore your interior life and grow in relationship with the Divine.

The weekend will be guided by Emily Peasley and Amy Hoover, experienced
spiritual directors and dreamwork facilitators. The retreat will start with
lunch at noon on Friday, April 24 and conclude Sunday, April 26 around
1:00pm. Cost is $400. This includes your private ensuite room, meals and
program fee.

Space is limited so register early by contacting
Amy Hoover, akhoover1965@gmail.com

01/31/2026

Kindness has such a deep impact…

There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

12/29/2025

A blessing for the end/beginning of the year...

AT THE END OF THE YEAR

As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them...

Days when beloved faces shone brighter
With light from beyond themselves;
And from the granite of some secret sorrow
A stream of buried tears loosened.

We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the blessing, 'At the End of the Year,' from the books
Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Winter Sunset at the Cliffs of Moher
County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

12/05/2025

Have you experienced having a “soul friend” as John O'Donohue explains?

ANAM CARA

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition, with commentary from John's close circle of friends.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Fanore Beach, County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/21/2025

Are you discerning a new direction in life? How are you listening to your soul? Your soul knows...

Many different strands of your past experience begin to weave together until gradually the new direction announces itself. Its voice is sure with the inevitability of the truth. When your life-decisions emerge in this way from the matrix of your experience, they warrant your trust and commitment. When you can choose in this way, you move gracefully within the deeper rhythm of your soul. The geography of your destiny is always clearer to the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Eternal Echoes.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Landing at Shannon, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/14/2025

The time to be slow…

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

10/16/2025

It was a great blessing share about Boundless Compassion and to meet and listen to so many women on their spiritual journey last week at Metanoia Christian Women's Retreat! Metanoia Iowa

09/29/2025

Here is the form for the Metanoia retreat on compassion. Lyn Van De Pol is the contact person. Her information is on the form.

Please send this form to Lyn Von de Pol!!! Hope to seeing you soon!

09/29/2025

This retreat is just a week and a half away!

Save the date! Metanoia 2025! October 9-11😊

09/16/2025

This is less than a month away!

Save the date! Metanoia 2025! October 9-11😊

08/25/2025

This is coming up quicker than we think! If you are interested, email Sherry Knox. sherry.knox5@gmail.com

Save the date! Metanoia 2025! October 9-11😊