An excerpt from my Silent Retreat Journal 2018 Monday August 6, 2018 “So so many things Beloved (my name for God in personal devotions). During…
Author: Hannah Bergstrom de Leon
Meeting the Saints
Every year at my silent retreat I try to take at least one book by the well known(ish) saints and/or mystics of the Christian tradition. …
Unpacking the “Fun Read”
After close to ten years, it has become almost… …almost rote packing for my 5 or 8-day silent retreat. The part I wrestle with each…
Feelin’ the Pressure Sis?
So a little birdie…okay Leonel, because I call him every Sunday when I’m on silent retreat, just like my dad called my mom when we little…
Blog?! What Blog?!?
So it has been two whole months and then a little since I last posted. I just counted it up and I have read 21…
A Reading Kind of Life – Act 2
We pick up my reading kind of life as our family moved to New Hampton, Iowa. Looking back, the move itself didn’t change much for…
Black Lives Matter
A movement, a rallying cry, a plea and an inalienable truth for America to aspire to… to embody, right now because, black lives matter. When…
Fluff is Fair Game
So according to my brother-in-law, Haddi and I don’t read “normal” books and as much as I hate to agree with George on anything (love ya George…who…
Yes! Graphic Novels are Real Books
I read my first graphic novel Maus when I was student teaching in Marshalltown, Iowa during the 2003/04 school year. Maus is the story of Nazi Germany…
Feel What You Are Feeling
It’s what every therapist has ever told me, “Hannah, just feel what you are feeling.” And I won’t lie, after 10 years of on again,…