Deeper Life: How radical is your faith?

Go ahead, and throw your mud into my water –your stones too. This river is going to keep on flowing downfrom further up than we can seebeyond the clouds- pristine and pure,sunshine mixed with stardust, grace and power –and it won’t ever stop pouring into this wilderness,softening the rough edges of jagged rocks,creating a path […]

Spiritual Journey: Into the Heart of Unity

At the edge of your grief and the beginning of mine,where his loneliness intersects with hers,a little ways past our illusions about how perfect this life should be –somewhere in the gorgeous, throbbing fullness of our humanity,we are going to unite – We just need to find that placewhere our joys and sorrows dance togetherunder […]

Prayers to Light Your Path: Patient Trust by Teihard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progressthat it is made by passing through […]

Deeper Life: Purify Your Intent

Beneath the mountainof doingis the reasonyou are. So what exactlyare you climbing for? When you clarify your intent,you clear a path for God … Look how grace flows like water into the cracks of your plansand expands –mountains of grief wash away into a clear path,wow in nature,all the elements bowto the King Her wishis […]

Spiritual Journey: When you face obstacles to freedom in Christ

Why do you allow stonesto standin your waywhen they can beso easily moved? What path on earthcan’t be clearedby the thundering power of God? Don’t fall for the illusionof being trapped – just ask and allow the Divine Broom to sweep away obstaclesto the freedom you were born for – All things truly are possible […]

Spiritual Journey: Every Moment of Your Life Matters! Even the hard ones…

There’s something about the forgetting –the for so long not realizingand then suddenly,finallywaking upand rememberingthe Truth so deeply in your bones that it singsa familiar song like you’ve always known. There’s something so naturalabout the experienceof God it’s like breathingin and out,deeper and deeper into restuntil you finally let goand wow it’s like a river […]

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 […]

What my toddler daughter can teach us about contemplative prayer

She opens her heart and expects the heavens to shower graces like rain. Of course, they always do. How could God resist such sweetness? My daughter’s name is Celia, which means heavenly. She is truly a gift from God and a reminder of the gift that all children are. In the glory of her toddlerhood, […]