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Lent Experience - Week 5, Part 2 | Lessons and Changes in Brokenness
Accepting and embracing our most challenging and painful experiences can crack our hearts open in ways that can be of help to both us and others. As we look back at th...
Lent Experience - Week 5, Part 1 | Cracked, a Bit Broken, and Helpful
You are beloved and perfect just the way you are! Both our perfections and imperfections are all meant to bless us, to provide us with greater wisdom and opportunities...
Lent Experience - Week 4, Part 3 | Blessed 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...
Lent Experience - Week 4, Part 2 | Welcoming and Naming Brokenness
Our struggles and brokenness carry clues for our healing. As we give these parts of our life to God -- letting them go -- we can break negative patterns and emotions, ...
Lent Experience - Week 4, Part 1 | Finding the Beauty in Brokenness
I’ve heard it said that our struggles don’t define us, they refine us. Like the refining of gold, the fires of suffering and brokenness can make us stronger, more beau...
Lent Experience - Week 3, Part 3 | Blessed 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...
Lent Experience - Week 3, Part 2 | Blessed to Know: “I’m guided and protected.”
A beloved child of God, as we all are, is not immune to the challenges and uncertainties of life. And yet, knowing that we’re blessed and affirmed by God as a much lov...
Lent Experience - Week 3, Part 1 | Blessed to Hear: “I am there.”
Despite outward appearances that may lead you to feel somewhat more cursed, alone, and out of control than blessed, may you remember and hear God’s voice saying to you...
Lent Experience - Week 2, Part 3 | Blessed 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...
Lent Experience - Week 2, Part 2 | Blessed
Our Wednesday bonus episodes bring our topic for the week a little closer to home as I Invite you to examine something about your own life and journey a little more cl...
Lent Experience - Week 2, Part 1 | Blessed
To give a blessing is to affirm, to say “yes”, to a person’s belovedness. A blessing touches the original goodness of the other, calling forth his or her belovedness, ...
Lent Experience - Week 1, Part 3 | Chosen to Share LovingKindness
Each Friday’s bonus episode will include a Lovingkindness meditation. Like God’s love, the love offered in this meditation is unconditional. The meditation starts wit...
Lent Experience - Week 1, Part 2 | Chosen
Our Wednesday episodes bring our topic for the week a little closer to home as I invite you to examine something about your own life and journey. a little more closel...
Lent Experience - Week 1, Part 1 | Chosen
To grow into becoming the beloved of God, we acknowledge with our whole being that we’re God’s chosen ones -- chosen just like Jesus was. It’s powerful to deeply absor...
Three Disciplines to Hear the Voice: Practicing Ministry
What does your own particular brand of ministry look like? You have unique gifts, talents, and life circumstances that create opportunities to love and serve others. H...
Three Disciplines to Hear the Voice: Ministry
Never underestimate the power of the smallest act of kindness and care. For when our words and actions flow from loving connection with God and others, then the world ...
Three Disciplines to Hear the Voice: Practicing Community
Perhaps someday there will be a world where all will know they’re the beloved of the Divine, and where caring community will exist and continue to grow through the mom...
Three Disciplines to Hear the Voice: Community
Community. It’s a wonderful part of life to be accepted and loved, and taken into a caring circle of friends or family. It’s truly a space in which our belovedness in...
Three Disciplines to Hear the Voice: Communion
Communion, or connecting with God, provides time and some open space when God can tell you who you are, and how much you are loved. It’s a wonderful starting point for...
Living the Good Life
There is nothing better than a deep, inner knowing of the reality of being the beloved daughter or son of God. No matter what life brings your way, being in relationsh...
Resolutions: “I am the beloved of God”
2020 will certainly have its ups and downs for you and me, just like any year does. But we no longer need to be searching for our identity in outer things. Our relatio...
Expecting God to Show Up
Like the wisemen in the Christmas story, we’re on a journey into the unknown. Though we often shy away from acknowledging and embracing our fears, we can befriend our ...
Love: Let it Discover You
May you complete this Christmas season deeply knowing and trusting in your immense value and belovedness. Let Love discover you, be filled with this Love, and experien...
Peace: Find it in Stillness
Perhaps I’m living in a fantasy world to think that we could possibly find any peace right smack in the middle of the Christmas season! But I believe that we can, that...
Joy: It’s an Inside Job
When we look to the world around us to bring us joy — looking to our activities or to other people — we tend to live in constant frustration, for often life is not giv...
Hope: Living Beyond Optimism
Optimism is a great start! But the person of hope lives in the moment with a general knowledge and trust that all of life is in good hands, and without the need to kno...
The Power of Gratitude
Gratitude has a powerful effect on our bodies, minds, and spirits. Appreciating even the little things, and seeing the good that is already in your life, helps us sta...
Now is the Time
Am I living my life in the way I’m meant to? Have I rehearsed enough, have I explored enough, have I nailed down some core values and a sense of what I’m called to at ...
Transition - Part 5: Acceptance... or Surrender
Today we look at a final aspect of the transition curve: yielding to, rather than opposing the flow of life. This is surrender, a stance we can choose which greatly a...
Transition - Part 4: Uncertainty in Liminal Space
Liminal space -- a “threshold,” in-between time of “what was” and the “next”. Simultaneously we may experience excitement and anticipation mixed with lots of uncertain...