It’s no secret. I need quiet like I need water. Anybody else? Perhaps we all do. Have you read this article yet? Our brains require ample amounts of silence in order to rebuild the brain cells stolen by noise and stress.…
I gave this print as a Christmas gift to my Healing Care Group Sunday night. We sat around the kitchen table at the Cathedral’s retreat house eating a spinach pizza and looking at the drawing. We took turns remarking…
Listen. Savor. Pray. Are you feeling thirsty for more of the with-God abiding life? Here’s my story and why practicing God’s Presence has become one of the chief desires of my life: https://www.athirstforgod.com/tag/practicing-the-presence-of-god/ AND, by the way, did you know…
We live our lives as orphans. We live impoverished and alone. We walk out our front door, down the sidewalk and completely forget who our Daddy is. At least that’s my story. When I was ten…
(Deep at the bottom of this quote is the SLOW Word Lectio. Subscribe on right to receive weekly lectios from the lectionary.) I feel more at home in the roomy world of poetry. I can be bare and human. I penned this…
(So…this is where I write a normal post and then at the end decide to take a plunge. My first Slow Word Video is embedded in the bottom. This is where brave gets real. ) We stood in line for…
It’s the kids’ bedtime and I can feel my intention for meaningful rest slipping away. I’m too weary to choose well. By the time the kids are kissed and prayed over, the dishes are done, and the dishwasher’s humming starts, I’m done too. Done.…
“I am with you always,” He promised. And I listen, because those were his last words. They were the last sounds of his voice reverberating on the rocks of our earth before he ascended. And last words have intentional power. They are…
Wide open, unfilled spaces can be utterly freeing. Anne Morrow Lindbergh in A Gift by the Sea rolled up the rugs in her “shell of a beach house” to encourage visual simplicity, a way of embracing the quiet. With this move, your schedule has…
Welcome to Word-seeds dear friend. This is where we pray the Scripture roots into every crevice and crack of our life, breaks up the hard ground. Word seed is a Bible study that may take longer than a day. We wind…