Night Surrender to Praise at Dawn – Nov. 16, 2021
“In the middle of the night I hold hands with trust and surrender to the One who sees without a light… My prayer travels deep into my soul space, into the essence of my being. Rising from sleep, I raise high the chalice of my life. Dressed in robes of joyful anticipation, I enter this […]
How to Love God
The words “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One” have been familiar to me for longer than I can remember. Of course, I tend to remember them better in the original Hebrew that I learned to chant as soon as I could talk, and Jesus seems to have learned a different […]
What Plan? – Oct. 27, 2021
What might have been the precise moment? What might He have had in mind? What plan did He foresee? when God purposefully fashioned me, knowing when and where and why He would love me into existence. —Beams of Prayer: Spiritual Reflections with Edward J. Farrell, p. 69
Blind Hope
Expectancy and joy filled my heart as I arrived at Dayspring Silent Retreat Center to lead our first in-person open retreat since the pandemic closed our doors. The theme was “seeding hope in transition,” a theme that fired my prayer for a long time preceding this October weekend. What I quickly realized at the start […]
