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The Flute and the Vine
See how we are a hole in a flute, and a branch on the vine -- thankfully dependent on the breath and energy of Christ to supply all that we need to be a loving, healin...
The Power of Breath to Renew Your Mind
The effect of consciously focusing on even just one breath forces us into the present moment, and helps halt our incessant thinking, worrying, anxiety, and fear. When ...
Episode 51 Redux | The Paradox of Challenges
We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for the month of August but will be back with new content in September! In the meantime, we are looking ...
Episode 47 Redux | The Lessons of a Tree
We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for the month of August but will be back with new content in September! In the meantime, we are looking ...
Episode 12 Redux | Coconuts of Wakefulness
We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for the month of August but will be back with new content in September! In the meantime, we are looking ...
Episode 11 Redux | How’s that working for you?: Living in Scarcity, or Abundance
We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for the month of August but will be back with new content in September! In the meantime, we are looking ...
Episode 1 Redux | My Inner Life: The “Hidden” Me
We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for the month of August but will be back with new content in September! In the meantime, we are looking ...
We Are Filled With the Kingdom of God
The kingdom of God, or this presence of Christ -- this universal community and presence of beloved human beings -- resides in each of us, already, just waiting to be ...
Lost and Found
It is not always a bad thing to lose something! When it comes to the inner life, there is much to be gained from losing things that weigh us down and obscure our inner...
Abundant Life in the Midst of Turbulence
Our world is walking through a challenging, even turbulent time. But as we listen carefully -- in the quiet, in nature, in the words of a caring fellow journeyer -- th...
Looking Within So We Can Live It Out
Hope, meaning, joy, and love -- all gifts of the Spirit that we spot as we look within at our spiritual journey. May your looking within turn into living it out throug...
Wake Up!
It’s time to wake up, whatever that means for you and your journey. If we’ve learned nothing else during these past few months, it’s that life is uncertain, and for th...
The Paradox of Challenges
Challenges are difficult, irritating at a minimum, but doorways into awareness of the power of our egoic mind to spin in negativity and unhappiness. They are also wond...
Grounded and Whole
I’m feeling like it’s time to be at my best, my most grounded and whole, so that whether my presence is needed in dialogue with others, or in action to help make our g...
Love Wins the Day
Our thoughts, hopes, and dreams for a new world are not meant to replace outer actions, but their invisible, yet powerful presence can aid humanity’s endeavors to crea...
The Inner Journey Can’t Be the Final Stop
If our inner journey does not lead to increasingly widespread love and inclusion of all people, and all of creation, then its worth is limited to our own comfort and p...
The Lessons of a Tree
How fortunate it is for a tree to be planted along a riverbank! Anchored deep into the soil, and with plenty of water to drink, this tree can withstand the most diffic...
Courage: the Operative Word
It takes courage to walk into an uncertain and unknown future. Thankfully, this courage and connectedness -- this ability to walk together in the joys and challenges o...
Resistance is Futile
Our resistance to life creates a constriction in us, both physically and spiritually. We become locked up, and closed off to the present moment -- the moment in which ...
Everything is a Gift
The Welcoming Prayer reminds us to welcome everything that comes to us in this Moment. We welcome thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions, kn...
The Three Energy Centers
We work so hard to independently acquire security, affection, and control. When our efforts are thwarted, we experience frustration and unconscious behaviors and react...
Breath: Jesus’ Life-Giving and Peace-Filled Gift
During these days of isolation, fear, uncertainty, and new normals, let your breath be a place where you find God. Imagine Jesus appearing before you as he did to the ...
Be still, and know that I am God.
It’s the day after Easter, but fear, anxiety, uncertainty, feeling totally off balance due to the new normals of different routines and daily patterns . . . these move...
Lent Experience - Week 7, Part 3 | Life of the Beloved
Today is the final episode of our Lent Experience. It’s been wonderful to travel through these weeks with you. I hope you’ve enjoyed pondering some of the sections of ...
Lent Experience - Week 7, Part 2 | The Power of a Meal
Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, the night when Jesus and his disciples gathered in the Upper Room to eat a final meal together. Jesus’ first sharing of the bread and wine...
Lent Experience - Week 7, Part 1 | Living as the Beloved
We begin the final week of our Lent Experience with an eye on what these weeks might mean for our lives: How will I carry out my personal mission to live as God’s belo...
Lent Experience - Week 6, Part 3 | Given - Our Death Can Be a Gift as Well
This week we’ve been pondering how each of us is given for the sake of others. This can happen through both our life, and through our death. We are called to live for ...
Lent Experience - Week 6, Part 2 | Given - Our Life is Our Greatest Gift
There are many wonderful ways that we can give to others through our talents and skills or through our finances. But the greatest gift of all is our life. “Who can we ...
Lent Experience - Week 6, Part 1 | Given - Finding Deep Fulfillment
In a society that speaks more about having than giving, we find our deepest fulfillment by being given as a gift for others. Jesus’ entire life modeled this, and now m...
Lent Experience - Week 5, Part 3 | Broken to Share Lovingkindness
Each Friday’s bonus episode will include a Lovingkindness meditation. The meditation begins with words of self-love and self-compassion, spreading from there to expres...