I danced with Lightning,and I couldn’t stop laughing. He was so wild! As we zig zag bounded across the sky, something heavy lifted off me,and I became Lightning too – fierce and free,like I am now. Never forget: Take timeto dancewith whoyou want to be. We become, who we dance with. Okay, that’s a little […]
Deeper Life: Remaining spiritually anchored when life gets busy
I am the solid groundbeneath your feet,the sunthat doesn’t burn. I am the voltageof raw power,electric through your veins – I am. Your frettingcan’t stop mefrom being your strength – I just am. You don’thave to saythe right thingor anything at all – I am holding youin perfect love. You are anchored in the gravityof […]
Unite in Prayer for Peace
The world can’t give you what you really want. Be careful about even looking out therefor too long at the chaos you can’t control – like a tornado,it will uproot your life …and send you spinning off into the distance away from everything you’ve been hoping foreven after all you’ve done. Peace startsin the basement,within […]
Encouragement to trust in the power of love
If you choose to let it in,you can trust that eventually it will expand outfrom your heartlike a supernova,radical light with a purposebeyond your comprehension –an explosion of beauty and power. When you start to feel something bubblingunder the surface in the darklike a cauldron of fireyou can’t contain,hold on tight –you are about to […]
Unity Starts Within. Cultivate a deeper prayer life as a path to world peace.
When I carry the wild griefof this world like a bag of bonesin my heart tangled with fear, outrage kicking and shriekingthe whole way –into in the silence of prayer,I am healed. Miraculous calmfills me instead. Love gradually begins to overflow out of my heart back into the world that broke me, and I believe […]
Prayer for the grace to see Christ in the marginalized and oppressed
You love us spectacularly –blazing light extravagant,unconditional,pure andtrue. And yet so often,we failto even see You. We are blindto Your presencein each other’s hearts,soft and burningfor someone to noticeand care,innocence buried under layers of injustice-scarswe didn’t choose. We fail to see purity,when it’s shroudedin suffering passed downlike a legacy-every ounce longingto be healed,screaming for mercywith […]
Contemplative prayer is the solution to all the problems we’re seeing in the world right now
Will youopen the floodgateinto eternity,into the vast realm beyond? Will you allowthe infinite supplyof Divine Loveto flowfreelyinto your heartand through? That’s all it wants to do. Imagine this:Pure Majestywaiting patientlyjust beyond the horizon like a sun hoping to rise …you may not live to see. But will you acknowledgethis great resourceof the heavensgrand,miraculous,so far beyondour […]
Deeper Life: How to cultivate the heart of a contemplative amidst the chaos of everyday life
In the silence of prayer, I am filled with a stillness that breathes within me. I am learning to rest in this calm without ceasing. Sometimes now, I can remain full of peace, while walking through the chaos that used to sink me. I am beginning to understand how I’m supposed to be in this […]
Spiritual Journey: When you’re bogged down by heavy emotions
Pain is only beautiful once it’s grafted into the heart of Christ. Don’t hesitate to place all the ugliness you can’t bear into that sacred space, so high above, yet walking right beside us all along … He carries the weight of our world like gold into His kingdom. He transmutes our worst nightmares into […]
Encouragement to prioritize prayer through this time of social isolation
When you can’t move forward, it’s time to dig deep, to find the Source of awe and patience inside. I pray the Spirit of God bubbles up like a fountain from deep within you and pours out a river of Light, of Love of Life into the cracks of a world that is parched… Like […]