Reflections from Our Directors
Love Each Other
The beauty of the stories of Jesus is that they reflect the human condition today. Loving one another is hard with family and with strangers. The stress of a continued pandemic and all its variants, the daily rise in gas prices, earth crying out for help, injustice unchecked, and a war leads me to want to blame and shame someone.
Pondering Movements of Mystery and Hope in May 2022
Yes, recovery is possible today due to many advances in the understanding of mental illnesses as “bio-chemical brain disease.”
Finding Clarity Amidst a Life Decision
Regardless of a specific religion or spirituality, we all benefit from the act of reflecting on our feelings and noticing the direction they compel us. Observing whether you are drawn towards feelings of consolation or desolation can be a profound source of inner guidance and begin to bring your heart’s true desire into focus.
Come and Have Breakfast
Quieting ourselves, we sense Jesus setting us a table. Jesus out on the shore preparing what gives us nourishment. Watching for those moments we need assistance. Listening when we ask for help. Providing what we need instead of what we might want.
Centering Prayer: Spiritual Practice for an Easter People
Centering prayer is… a surrendering, self-emptying form of prayer, it helps carry the gifts of Easter beyond the season into ordinary time and the everyday circumstances of life.
A Loving Gaze in Springtime
This is the experience some people are having at this very moment. Despite spring’s arrival, they are still in the midst of winter.
Am I Racist? Using Spiritual Practice to Lean into My Discomfort
There are many writers these days who are talking about white privilege / white dominant culture / white supremacy. Their contention is that because white supremacy and white privilege are baked right into our culture and our systems, if we are white we are inescapably racists.
Howard Thurman and Encountering God
When we consider how we want to create, deepen, and grow our relationship with God remembering that every encounter is a divine encounter, we are reassured of God’s love for us.
What God Desires
God resides within us and in our humanness, it is we who come and go; yet God is always there telling us each time we return,” I am so glad you are back”.