The Presence of God Was There – Feb. 3, 2023

“And what I began discovering is that every time I allowed myself to feel at a loss in the face of the pain I witnessed, every time I touched my own irrelevance, there was this energy of God that would emerge in our midst. All I had to do was say yes to it. The […]

May I Come In? – Jan. 30, 2023

“Before that day I was a lost sheep. I was a lost sheep making my own plans, always caring about God by imagining my own ways of getting closer to and serving him. And most of it had very little to do with God. I was just wandering from one patch of grass to the […]

Healing Inward and Outward

Sometimes life presses in on me. With a body tired, a mind swirling with a multitude of thoughts, a heart aching, what desires to be open, present, and engaged is lost to me. The pressing has me feeling separate from the Source of animating vitality. The creativity and compassion cannot flow. I need to rest […]

Contemplation – Mar. 18, 2021

“Contemplation is about stepping out of the world of surface appearances and illusions and into eternity in the presence of God. The eternal reality is that each of us bears a “weight of glory” that would dazzle us like the sun, if we looked straight into it now. But like the sun, seeing by its […]