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Essays by Nita Gilger

Milkweed Hope: Nita Gilger
​Dear God, Please Open Me to the Spirit of Play: NIta Gilger​
The Impermanence of Permanence: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
Peaceable Kingdom: Art, Prayer, and Practice
​Carrying On as a Spiritual Practice: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel​​
Resilience & The Prickly Pear Heart: Nita Gilger
​A Walk in the Woods: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
Rain: A Poem by Nita Gilger
​​​​It's the Little Things Sometimes: Nita Gilger
Mystery and the Sailing Rocks of Death Valley: Nita Gilger​
All Creatures Great and Small: Relations with Animals as Relations with God
Yes, I can stay a while: Nita Gilger on Abiding
Having Faith When Life Does Not Make Sense: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
The Courage of Mushrooms: Nita Gilger​
The Sublime and the Mundane: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Nita Gilger​
Setting Sail, God as Wind: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
​Connections, Neighbors, and Unexpected Beauty: Nita Gilger
​Juxtaposition: Nita Gilger
​Deep and Wide: Nita Gilger​
​Unexpected Journeys: Nita Gilger
Christ in a Fish Bladder and a Hug: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel​
​Wild Turkeys and Wilderness Ways: Nita Gilger
​Having a Flexible Strength: NIta Gilger
​Relationships as Good Medicine: Nita Gilger
​Fixing Like a Child: Nita Gilger
​The Arch My Teacher: Living with the Push and Pull of Life
​Praying to Red Berries: Gilger and McDaniel
​There Can Be Sadness in Holding On: Nita Gilger
​Cultivating Compassion and Beauty: Nita Gilger
​Building a Canoe: ​Moving from Rough to Smooth​
Shedding in Order to Grow​​​
​Life is Like Peanut Brittle
My Life with Aoudads
The Rough and Tumble of Life: Here We go Again
The Good Shepherd: A Universal Love
​Resilience in the Waves of Life
Spiral Living: Seeing with Artist Eyes
A Ringy Dingy Super Moon
Beauty in Vulnerability—Looking in the Mirror
​Beauty or Beast: Are there Rattlesnakes in Heaven?
Woodpecker Wisdom: A Willingnes to Regroup
​Ashes and other Smudges​
When Dreams are Interrupted​
Children's Wisdom, Grown-Up Wisdom and ​​the Gifts of Mutual Flourishing
​Dot-to-Dot Providence: Trust in a God who makes New Plans
​Guiding Light
Catch a Falling Star:Blessed Nostalgia as a Spiritual Practice​
The Living Christ as a Non-Coercive Spillway of Love​
​A Tender Care that Nothing be Lost: God the Button Collector
Making Good with What We Have At Hand: God in the Making​
O;en and Relational Line Dancing: God's Patience with Missteps​
​Deep Unto Deep
​Bringing Life to Life: One Role of Art in an Ecological Civilization​
Mazes of Life​
​Hope from Peaches
Beyond Mere Interconnectedness: The Hunger for Love and Delight
​​Sticking Our Heads in the Sand
Free Falling: A Way Other Than Our Own
​Being Swept Up and Away: Finding Courage When Fear Calls Our Name
The Gift of Chaos
Every Crevice a Story: The Boulder as Teacher
An Olive Wood Cup: A Short Theology of Holy Communion
Finding Traction in the Darkness and the Light
​Loving in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Learning from Rock Owls in Bryce Canyon 
​A Call to Deeper Places: The Owl as My Teacher 
God, Are You Looking for Me?
The Turtle My Teacher
​Life with a Broken Wing
Trying to Understand the Practice of Trusting
​Like Oaks, Like Cacti: The Resilient Heart