March 3, 2025

Sacred Kinship goes beyond the humans into the realm of all animals. A dog or cat may not be able to articulate love with words, yet they express the soul's qualities of love in profound and unmistakable ways. Horses and many other animals provide comfort, support, and love. Lions, tigers, and apes raised by humans and then released into the wild have been known to recognize their first "parent." There are YouTube videos of reunions between animals and their human parents, who loved their animals so much that they released them back into the wild.  

March 2, 2025

Sacred Kinship is essential to make the world go around. If no one supported each other spiritually, the world would be totally at odds. There would be kinship, but instead of being based on the sacred, it would be based solely on how the person or persons materially benefit. For example, the mafia has kinship. Also, warring countries exhibit “kinship” when negotiating a peace agreement, but their kinship is brought about only because they share in the desire to end the war. And the old saying, “There is honor among thieves” coveys that Kinship isn’t necessarily sacred. 

March 1, 2025

Sacred Kinship is one of the nine points of the Enneagram of Soul and is found at Point Six. 

Sacred Kinship is the landing place for sacred hospitality, sacred interaction, sacred family, sacred friendships, and all matters relating to our soul and community. Without Sacred Kinship, we would have no spiritual ties to others. With Sacred Kinship, we access the human family and have more intimate connections with family, friends, and the sacred community. 

February 28, 2025

A dear person with whom I share a spiritual kinship recently had a health crisis. They were in that scary time while awaiting the results of medical tests. Fear and uncertainty over health matters can be pretty challenging for anyone. I was feeling their anxiety and realized that they would benefit from some much-needed support from our spiritual community, of which they are a part. 

February 27, 2025

Sacred Kinship is essential because it supports our true nature. Those with whom we share Sacred Kinship experience our soul, its spiritual nature, and the spiritual intentions of our being. And we experience theirs. However, people who know us superficially are not in the circle of sacred Kinship and, therefore, know mostly our outer selves. Because we are not consciously in Sacred Kinship with these dear souls, it is less likely that the more intimate aspects of our spiritual lives will be shared. 

February 26, 2025

Why is a spiritual community so powerful? The apostle Paul spoke to the question when he says in First Corinthians, “Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you a limb or organ of it” (12:27). He talks about all believers being in one body in Christ. A genuinely spiritual community has tremendous power that transforms its members, and the people they touch. Community members take on the various parts of the body, which, in concert, makes a unified functioning body. In the Christian community, this is part of the larger body of Christ. 

February 25, 2025

I first heard the word “kin” in family discussions as a child. For example, a relative would ask if someone was “kin” to someone else, meaning were they were part of the same biological family. Or the word would be used to state that someone is a biological relative of a specific family—for instance, “Aunt Ruth is kin to the Robins family.” Then I noticed that the word “kin” and “kinship” could also be used to describe relationships that are close but not necessarily biological.