Julia

she was also the daughter of avid art lovers who dragged all three kids mercilessly through any sacred ruin in Southern France and Spain in the summer, which formed her religious imagination. Registered for Med-School she went to Australia. During that time she had the gift to live with Aborigines in the Northern Territory, who changed her German mind for ever, with their spiritual perception of the desert, bush and rainforest. Upon returning she steeped herself in studying everything but medicine: political science, comparative religion, psychology and theology. At the end of an anti-war rally that she organized in those years she stumbled with her thousands other members of the manifestation upon a peace prayer led by Verbum Dei missionaries in the cathedral of, Germany’s then capital, Bonn. A long, beautiful and unique journey began for her with the Verbum Dei. Nowadays, she still loves nature, especially the ocean, is steeped into the science and humanity of healing, has been teaching many years hermeneutics to doctoral students (seminarians, religious and lay) from around the world at the GTU/JST in Berkeley, CA and other places, often prays with a ‘slow camera' in her hand and continues to be amazed and grateful for the charism Verbum Dei, in which she feels so deeply called, and that gives her the opportunity in the diverse retreat ministries to connect her silent loving relationship with God with the manifold expression the Word of God invites each member of the human family to unfold towards a fuller and holier life and a more reconciled world. She commutes between San Francisco, Berkeley and Tracy, CA.

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