Finding Love's Way

By Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

You’ve felt it—love so strong you ache with the fullness of it as if you’re trying to contain a power ten times your size and are unable to do so. Where does such powerful love come from? What is there beneath the surface we sometimes sense but rarely hold? Is there a greater reality around and within us, a uniting energy going far beyond our classical definition of ͞love͟?

Through walking the ancient symbol of the labyrinth, in Finding Love’s Way, we explore a wider world where God, ourselves, and love are inseparable one from another, where we see ourselves as beings of divine light, and that even with all the joy and loss we experience, we can never truly be separated from what binds us together: the truth of who we already are and the reality that love itself can be the journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sarah Katreen Hoggatt
• Release date: Oct 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9780972946070

Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

Sarah has been writing for over twenty years and is the author of several books and numerous articles. She is a writer, spiritual director, international speaker, and book designer with a passion for ministering to fellow souls. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Christian Ministry and a Certificate of Spiritual Formation and Discipleship from George Fox Evangelical Seminary in addition to her Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon State University. Sarah lives in Salem, Oregon where she loves to go hiking, dragon boating, and work on her photography. She is passionate about living her life as a gift.

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For those beloved

who walk with my soul

and for those who give me

the great privilege

of walking with theirs.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I

In Every Word

The Jewish and Pakistani Divide

Devotion

Underneath

God Came Along

God Knows Best

Your Face Haunts Me

If You Were a River

Right Time

Source of Words

Transmitting

Out of the Dark

Beyond the Creed

Low Tide

Holding the Words

The Forbidden Dance

If You’re Upset

Clicking Circles

II

Presence

What Do You Look Like?

Willing to Be

Bubble

When Rocks are Falling

To Love

Him

Garden of Grace

One Sun

Throbbing Oneness

Anyway

To Show You Magic

Watching God

Then You’ll Know

Dear Self

Be Still and Know

A Writer’s Greatest Risk

Divine Wings

Why You?

III

Look Again

Tentacles of God

Learning

We All

Realizations

Thunder Roar

Tree Language

Not Enough

Somebody Saw, Somebody Knew

Bonded Together

Stepping Out

The Sun and the Rain

You Remembered

Simple Gifts

Before Me

Mosaics

Gift of Stone

The Soul Walks

Breathe In

The Fire

IV

How Do You Live as Love?

All the Love You Need

Withered Leaves

Language of the Hands

Vulnerability

Garbage Catches the Light

Lying Here

Sacred Space

The Real Question

Awakening Breath

Taking Love’s Risks

Your Presence

The Gift of Being Seen

Wood Fire

Here You Are

Sink Down

Bag of Seeds

Love Flows On

In You

The Calm in the Midst of the Storm

When Love is No Longer Patient

Beneath the Surface

River Prayer

God in My Dreams

Sabbath

V

Let Them Grow

The Circuitous Road

God in the Gutter

Love’s Shadow

What Matters

Remorse

Sending It Out

If I Could

The Depths of Prayer

It Wasn’t Only

When We Rise

The Artist

Until I Tried

Tantalizing Questions

Without Limits

Acknowledging the Real

The Other Way

What is Truth?

Clouds of God

Letting Go

No Labels for This

Brother River

Release

Changing Light of Night

The Open Gift

Under the Knowledge of the Soul

Living

I Love You

VI

The Sound of the Rain

The Face of God

Learning to Express

The Priceless Moment

Soul, Speak to Me

Sometimes Love is Silent

Ropes for Two

Understanding

Turning

Death Knows

Soaking in Solitude

Searching

Birthed Once More

Eternally Connected

The Phoenix Can Rise Again

Standing in the Coals

New Life

Take the Chance

Only Today

I Love Your Face

Made to Love

On Showing Up

What Our Souls Truly Are

The Experience Has You

Wordless Knowing

Heart Open

Clarity

Exploring

Along the Way

Labyrinth of Love

Love’s Truth

Abiding Strength

More Than the Word

Other Books by Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

Learning to Fly

In His Eyes

In the Wild Places

Encountering the Holy

About the Author

Acknowledgments

When writing about love, I have found it best to have your main support be some of the people you think of first when you hear the word love—people who exude the quality in their very presence, in their words, and especially in their actions. It has been an awe-inspiring experience to have such wise and kind souls with me on this journey and I have learned a great deal from their examples. Not only have they been there to edit and comment on every piece of this book, they have cheered me on, given me sacred space beside them, and shown me love throughout. I am deeply grateful to them all. If every writer had such beautiful souls in their lives helping them along the way, there would be far more books about the deeper rhythms of love.

Thank you to my editors and friends Bob and Sue Henry for all the times you told me how much my words meant to you and for all the times you read a line or a whole poem and told me I could do better. The effort you’ve put