• resting in awareness
    Wholeness

    Resting in Awareness

    Let me just be like that little rock that sits so elegantly and confidently on the banks of the lake. Not fighting or resisting her experience, but letting it all happen just as it is. This is rest. This is true peace.

  • fighting for peace
    Wholeness

    Fighting For Peace

    Oh how our minds, when left on their own, strive to control, to plan, to ruminate, to live anywhere but the present. Going to beautiful places will not do anything for us unless we change the landscape of our minds in midst of it all. 

  • Christian body scan
    Mindful Meditation

    It Is Good: A Body Scan Meditation

    As faithful Christians, we are not called to escape from our bodies, or to shame them. Rather, we are called to live in harmony with our bodies and give thanks for this temporary place where our souls may dwell here on earth.

  • What faith is
    Faith

    What Faith Is

    Faith is one big trust-fall into the arms of a gracious Father whose steadfast love fills the hole in my heart so much so that I cannot help but believe its all true.

  • the gift of the breath
    Faith

    The Gift of the Breath

    Our bodies depend on the breath to live, just as our souls depend on the Father's love to flourish. Maybe that’s why he gives us breath — to remind us, that we, as humans, are dependent on something, someone, outside of ourselves for life. We cannot in our own…

  • prayer for times of worry and anxiety
    Faith

    A Prayer for Trustfulness In Times of Worry and Anxiety

    The following is one my favorite prayers for times of stress and anxiety. I am thankful for a book that expresses the weights of my heart and mind, when I myself can't find the words to say them. Pulled straight from the Book of Common Prayer, and prayed by…