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Third Week of Lent… Following at a distance from Jesus. What does it mean? Where do we keep our distance? What might draw us near?
Lenten sacrifices and offerings can never save our souls, but they can humble our hearts and put us in a right posture as we come to sit at Jesus’ feet during these days of passion.
Whether we worship communally or privately, prefer the silence or the music, in soaring cathedral or a simple country church, we all worship. It’s part of what defines the human experience. But what’s at the heart of worship?
Discerning the Divine invitations in life is looking for the fingerprints of God on our souls. It invites us to listen and to be heard, to see and be seen, to touch and be touched by the Divine presence at work within us. But first, we must ask, “Do I want to be heard, seen and touched by God?”
Just as the tulip bulbs need to be replanted, and the flower bed needs weeding, and soil needs feeding, so the soul needs tending, over and over again, for always we are beginning.
Is it possible to know God in the midst of the most mundane tasks of your day? To recognize the voice of God while emptying the dishwasher, baking cookies, buying new rain gutters, or repotting the houseplant?
Mostly we live on the surface of life. Yet beneath and beyond an intricate network of life is just waiting for us to notice.
Gratitude seems so basic, so common, so baseline to spirituality. But in the midst of struggles we grapple with gratitude.
Sometimes we over-complicated the beautiful simplicity of spirituality and knowing God.
What happens when we practice spiritual disciplines? Sometimes nothing perceptible, sometimes everything life changing.
Spiritual discipline is an offering of time and space that welcomes God into the soul.
Faith. It’s a big topic and we each come at it from a different perspective. What has your faith journey been like? What does your faith map look like?
Wrestling with faith often involves embracing doubt, not to wrestle it to the ground and suppress it. But rather to take it by the hand and allow it to open a door that leads us to a broader unfolding of what it means to have faith
There is a beautiful ancient prayer recorded in scripture that says may you be “filled with all the fullness of God.” These words confounded me for years.
Whether we pay attention to it or not, we all live by a certain rhythm and liturgy in our ordinary life
Dust. The unadorned essence of all earthy substance, becomes the dwelling place of God.
We exist within a given time and place as we enter into the history of the world, within a certain culture that shapes our world view. These circumstances, as well as our physical being, can change our emotions and our experiences. Life is like the weather around the mountain that constantly changes. The weather is not the mountain, but the mountain bears witness to it.
I’ve long felt that our cultural insistence of measuring our accomplishments, our levels of productivity, stature, or growth is a silent trauma to the soul that we have come to accept as the norm of our existence.
A little self knowledge is not only something to celebrate, but always leads to something Divine.
