Category: Meditation

ALL-WISE GOD, you have called me here. Sometimes I question that call. All I ask is that I have the mind of Christ, who emptied himself of personal gain and was obedient to death. Let me die to my ego and in dying to my fantasies accept the reality of where I am. Amen. –…

BEFORE I BEGAN to practice … blessing God, moments of goodness had to reach out and grab me dramatically. The practice of blessing retrained my senses to notice elements in the landscape of life I previously passed by heedlessly. This new awareness fed my soul and slowly reshaped my attitudes. Simple goodness, savored, more and…

I BELIEVE THAT it is God’s nature to heal, that is, to continue creating us to be the unique persons God intends. When we are sick; when disaster strikes; when we are buffeted by betrayal, tragedy, abuse, or our own sin; when we are oppressed by distorted social systems, God’s desire is to redeem, transform,…

Thanks to Eric Kieb for this link. Be patient and wait for the whole video to finish.  Then we have only begun 🙂 to reorder our minds towards the great reversal!

GIVE ME THE GRACE to make your Word my home, that I know you more clearly and serve you more faithfully ever more. Amen. – Norman Shawchuck and Rueben P. Job A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God It’s time to remind myself tonight, Grace first, the rest second … enough said for…

Many of us might not feel we are great listeners. Very often, we use words, and noise to crowd out the silent space where we can actually listen.  This is true even of prayer. Worse is when we are programmed to only thinking of prayer as talking to God, more than with him.  Because when…

O GOD of dry bones, be with us. O God of the silence, be with us. When there are no words, be with us. When there is only the time in between, be with us. Amen. – Susan Henry-Crowe “The Time in Between” The Upper Room Disciplines 2005 I seem to have lost the ability…

"What’s in your suitcase?" – now that’s a question I haven’t been asking lately. What are we carrying around in our hearts and in our minds?  What occupies our waking hours and our dreams? There’s a Chinese saying that says in my paraphrase, "What we think during the day time, I will dream at night." …

CREATIVITY … is a practice in hope. When things go wrong, if we can make something from it or if we can imagine a day when God will make things better, then we have hope that sorrow is not the last word. – Carol Lakey Hess and Marie Hess “Creativity Way to Live: Christian Practices…

IT’S NOT EASY, but God calls us to the struggle, and the struggle is worth it. – Helen R. Neinast and Thomas C. Ettinger What About God? Now That You’re Off to College (via Upper Room Daily Reflections) Prayer, meditation, …. struggle … this is the way I can relate to when it comes to…