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Contemplative spiritual practices offer us a way, or many ways, of opening our hearts, minds, and bodies to God’s presence. It helps us recognize and surrender our ego driven small self and live into our true and authentic self, made in the image and likeness of God.
In last week’s...
This old Tina Turner song asks the question; “What’s love got to do with it?” The lyrics go on to say that “love is a second hand emotion” and “who needs a heart when a heart can be broken”. Too often we think in these terms and see others...
As we let go of 2020 and move on into the New Year; I ask us to ponder the question what is guiding us. I am not much for making resolutions because they can often be too far-fetched, overwhelming and unachievable. I would rather be familiar with where I am starting and have a point...
To some, in this hurry up world, contemplation may seem like an old-fashioned and irrelevant word. In simple terms it means the deliberate seeking of God by an inner dialogue. It is my experience that we are able to grow closer to God through our willingness to detach from the passing...
God’s grace, given freely, is a humiliation to the ego because free gifts say nothing about being strong, superior, or moral. Thus only our soul can understand grace, never our mind or ego. The ego does not know how to receive things freely or without logic. It likes to be worthy and...
With the current COVID crisis and people sheltering at home you may wonder what being a pilgrim and how making a pilgrimage is even possible, but it may be even more important in our spiritual focus and growth. We are all on journeys – journeys of faith, journeys in relationships...
Where were you when the world changed? The current world situation and global pandemic we are now experiencing is a prime example of something author Richard Rohr refers to as “liminal space”. He describes it being somewhere betwixt and between; having left one part or...
Spiritual sages, prophets and gurus from all different spiritual traditions encourage us not to take ourselves too seriously. Their wisdom has echoed down through the millennia warning us that what we think we know is not always the truth and truth often shows up in the most unlikely places. To...
Advent is a time of waiting and it can be an invaluable time of rest and deep reflection, a time to wipe the slate clean and clear out the old so we can walk into a new year feeling ready to grow and move forward without a bag of boulders on our back or chains around our ankles tied to the caves...