In case you haven’t noticed from my blog title, I am passionate about the power of prayer. I’ve witnessed miracles and had mystical encounters that have motivated me to reorient my entire life towards God. For the last 15 years, every time I try to go further and faster toward an external calling, I wind […]
Spiritual Journey: What to expect while deepening your prayer life
Sometimes, prayer is the divine experience of basking in Love, like sunshine. Other times, prayer is the divine labor of chasing fear like rats out of the kitchen. When we begin to cultivate a prayer life, we often quit because we think we’re doing something wrong when we discover how hard it is. We know […]
Inner Workout: Cultivating a deeper prayer life
In the beginning, prayer can feel like digging trenches- hard and tedious. What’s the point? But if you stick with prayer long enough, it can become more like discovering a secret passage … a river, flowing deep beneath our ordinary lives. You can bathe in healing waters and allow God to peacefully deliver you into His promise for your […]
Simple Faith: Prayer as a pathway to God
Like a child looking out a smudged window at the world, I search for God in prayer. I see enough to want to go out and play.
Dandelion prayers
When we whisper genuine prayer intentions, we blow dandelion seeds of love into a gentle summer breeze, which disperses them to exactly where they’re most needed. When we pay attention, we begin to notice how they grow by grace into beauty, which covers the earth with sunshine.
Prayers like comets
Where thoughts, words and actions can’t go, our prayers travel on comet tails to distant galaxies, inviting grace into the atmosphere, so we can experience meteor showers of love.