I Am Not Mine Own
I am not my own. My body is not mine. The boundaries of my skin hold the multitudes that began merging within me in 2010. They came...
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Ingrid Oliphant
- Nov 9, 2020
- 4 min
We Do This Together
A Facebook connection shared this earlier today, written by a third party: No one is coming to save you, but it is not because you are...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
On Demons
I work with ‘invisible’ beings, those that most cannot see. I am surrounded by them. They span the spectrum from Ancestors to angels,...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
They’ve Made Me Write Before
More on Into the Lion’s Den: The second time, I was pushed to write was in February 2017, while recovering from Standing Rock at a...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Out of Outrage
I don’t know when it was I ran out of space for outrage. I can’t remember if there was a singular sudden clap of thunder-like something...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
The Invention of Wings and God’s Voice
There is a line in Susan Kidd’s “The Invention of Wings”: How does one know the voice is God’s? Perhaps it was my own voice? Does it...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
The Grief You are Feeling
Photo by Kat Jayne on Pexels.com The grief we are feeling is not the private sort. That exists but this is not it. What we are feeling is...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
What If You Knew
What would change for you if you knew that a God, The God, all the Gods, wanted nothing more than a relationship with you? What if you...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 27, 2020
- 1 min
Hearing the Prayer
To hear the prayer of one is to hear the prayer of all. To heed the prayer for one is to answer the call for all. Everyone has walked...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 26, 2020
- 1 min
To Feel the One
To feel the pain of another is to know their heart. To feel the darkness of another is to know their heart is not dark. To breathe the...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Jun 13, 2019
- 1 min
Talking about Worship of Idols and Sexual Abuse
Gentlemen, we need to talk. We need to talk about your worship of the Virgin (she wasn’t), the Holy Mother, Durga, Shakti, Tara,...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 18, 2019
- 3 min
Oh, My Darling Empath
You have no idea You have no idea your desire to retreat is merely your fear of meeting yourself in another. You have no idea that your...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 24, 2019
- 1 min
Afraid to feel?
Does it feel foolish to you, impossible even, that your ‘feeling too much’ isn’t that at all? Can you, even the tiniest of moments...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 23, 2019
- 4 min
Principles and Visitations from the Mother
I’m reading a book called Benediction by Kent Haruf. It’s one of those that I’m forcing myself to finish for reasons I can’t comprehend....
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 22, 2019
- 1 min
Oceans of Love
It often feels impossible to describe the love contained within me. Even when I cannot give it words, it frightens people. They seem to...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 12, 2017
- 1 min
May Mercy Rise
May the grief-stricken be touched with the tenderest kiss. May the hunger for hubris be starved as love is heard. May mercy rise. May the...
Ingrid Oliphant
- May 22, 2017
- 3 min
How a Non-Deist Dances (or does the dishes) with God
When I was in the sixth grade, I saw an angel. At least, that’s what I called it. It was in the sky, it was alive, and not a bird or a...
Ingrid Oliphant
- May 9, 2017
- 1 min
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and Merci on Me
Mercy. noun 1. compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. or: a blessing that is...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 26, 2017
- 1 min
Gnarly Dance
tangled up in the hair and roots get twisted across the toes, grace just isn’t there There is a fine line between a twist and shout and a...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 28, 2017
- 1 min
The Fluidity of It All
You are part of the fluidity of all things just as oxygen is of you. Inner and outer are not a breath apart or away from each other. They...
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