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Welcome to the site where I blog, share links to my published work, and invite you to explore spiritual direction.
I am a writer and a licensed spiritual director, and the mother of three adult children. I am actively involved in the Anglican parish of St. Aidan, Moose Jaw, where my husband is the priest. My life has been deeply shaped by years of ministry in the Indian subcontinent, in Lithuania and as administrative staff at Regent College, Vancouver and Cranmer Hall, University of Durham, England.
The Window
I was eighteen and just finished high school. In early October, I drove home from Bible school for Canadian Thanksgiving. Already, in the small, northern Alberta town where my parents lived, darkness fell early in the day. On this evening, my old boyfriend and I made plans to meet for a conversation. He (I’m sure)…
A Fruitful Place
Pop. My thumb and forefinger press open the tip of the pea pod picked just this morning. Down the firm pod’s length my thumb drags the shell apart, crackling, to expose the peas in their matching rows. Now my thumb rolls out the peas to tumble – ping, ping – into a blue glass bowl.…
Spring
The spring melt here in southern Saskatchewan came finally despite a ridiculously huge and much resented snowstorm on April 20. Along the highway north of our city, water filled roadside ditches and spread across fields, turning farmhouses into “lakeside property.” At last, the sky rang with the calls of flocks of geese. Outdoors, people walked…
Darlene Pinter 