About Nancy Rue
Why should you trust me to open up a journey for you and travel it with you, especially a spiritual one? Yeah, I have degrees in education, I’m a graduate of the Academy for Spiritual Formation, I’ve published 125 books with traditional publishers and spoken to thousands of moms and mini-women and teenage girls and writers over the last 25 years. But those aren’t the creds that qualify me for THIS venture.
For this, I have only the seeking that has led me for the last 30 years of my adult life (and counting!) The continual revelation of my false self and the ongoing connection to my True Self– with the help of writers Richard Rohr, Thomas Keating, Eugene Peterson, Julia Cameron and more recently Malcolm Guite, Steve Bell and Alexander John Shaia. Deepening contemplation through the guidance of the YogaWell Institute. Intimate relationships with fellow pilgrims. Writing through fiction, non-fiction and personal journaling to put into images and stories the truths that have arisen.
There are no figures to attach to that – no likes, followers, subscribers. I don’t have a license to lead! I DO have a life that I hope speaks to my experience. Here’s how I live it.
My home is on a lake in Tennessee where I hang with my husband Jim and our chocolate lab Gibbs. My mind does its work in my studio overlooking said lake where does and bucks and fawns and cardinals and finches and herons provide my inspiration. My body loves loose tea (Bags? What?!) and yoga and a big leather chair by the fire and a saggy hammock. My friends and I are jazzed about coffee dates, bookstore wandering, whine and cheese parties and laughing in unladylike fashion (complete with snorts) when we gather virtually or in person.
My dearest longings are to own a card catalogue cabinet. Spend more time with my daughter Marijean and my grandchild Mozz who live far away. Make the Hildegard of Bingen pilgrimage. Walk the labyrinth in the Chartres Cathedral. Become wholly my authentic self in union with God.
And to share that wholeness journey with you. I’m glad you’re here.
Nancy’s current writing is represented by Don Pape at Pape Commons: don@papecommons.com