Our offering this week is a joint effort: Writer and speaker Rebecca Hastings published an article entitled “5 Guaranteed Ways to Find God in the Everyday”. We’ll share her five suggestions, with our own take on...
This weekend reminds us of a profound Trinitarian display in the life of Jesus. We must always be mindful that, as was the case with Jesus, such profound experiences are often followed by a call to the desert. Author and podcaster Cassidy Hall explores the desert as a metaphor for difficult times in...
Every great move of God begins with a fiat, a “yes” to the presence and action of God in our lives. One way of understanding the difference between sin and sanctity is the simple difference between “no” and “yes” to God in the depth ...
Contemplative blogger Brian Mitchell offers this reflection on the ever-present Christ:
The Christ Light animates everything inviting us to share in the ineffable divine Energy of Being, of Source, of God. Christ is that which speaks to the core of where we are headed as a human race, as a ...
One of the gifts of contemplative practice is the grace to reframe our understanding of our past and thus allow the transformative power of God to work through our past. Common, but misguided, ways of relating to our past include a tendency to remain stuck in nostalgia for past glories, successes, or titles, as if those things...
We must always remember that the waiting that we are called to during Advent is an active waiting, a season of raising up valleys, lowering mountains, and making straight a highway for the Lord (see Is 40:3-4). Many people will...
Theologian and Cherokee descendant Dr. Randy Woodley offers this Thanksgiving prayer:
Great Mystery,
I am humbled that I will never know everything about you, but I am grateful that through the lives of the other I can know more of you. While I thank you for those who are like me, I especially thank you for those who are different than...
When undertaking a prayer practice, there is a natural human tendency to want to set timelines and goals. There is some value to this sort of self-imposed structure, as it can help us cultivate discipline and positive habits in our prayer lives. Nevertheless, we must always remember that prayer is ultimately relationship. As such, trying to predetermine a point of “arrival” that will allow us to proclaim “success” in our prayer is...
Author and motivational speaker Regina Brett once wisely stated that “God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment.” Divine union can only be realized in the now, and likewise Dive gifts like grace, peace, healing, and love can only be given and received now. In that sense, it is ineffectual to focus our ...
Contemplative wisdom teacher Cynthia Bourgeault discusses how “dying before we die” brings new life from our awareness of mortality:
he one who would save his life or her life will lose it and the one who’s willing to lose it, will save it (see Matthew 16:25)… The whole tradition we’ve had of ...
In his book A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis proposes that, “You must have a capacity to receive, or even Omnipotence can’t give.” True mercy, grace, and love are big gifts, so much so that we can struggle with our ability to ...