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March 20, 2020 A Response to These Days of Uncertainty Things are shifting by the moment and we, like you, are feeling a range of emotions. Thankfully, as the Psalms attest, God is ready to hear our honest prayers.

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October 13, 2018 At Your Service It's good and right to schedule intentional times of service, especially hidden ones. But let's pair those pre-planned acts with the daily prayer, "Lord, bring me someone I can serve, and grant me a…

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July 14, 2023 Finding the Words Our disappointments, frustrations, and grief—our longings, joy, and praise—need a place to go. God is waiting to receive them. To receive us. Finding words for what's unspoken inside us is a way to…

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May 5, 2023 Anointed The term anointed, while debated and misunderstood, is still the best word I know for someone with the gift of making room for the presence of God. This anointing seems to be given to people who…

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January 6, 2023 Should We Measure Spiritual Growth? In the end, this is how the spiritual life is measured... Do I love and enjoy God? Am I easy in myself? Have I learned to love others?

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July 12, 2019 Becoming ​“Beautiful of Soul” In fact, the aim of the Christian contemplative is precisely to stay connected to the life that is real. “I have set the Lord always before me,” says David in Psalm 16. It is that awareness of God’s…

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June 15, 2018 Seeing the Bible Afresh The Spiritual Disciplines, remember, are meant to bring us into that rhythm, not burden us with more to do. There are ways to practice disciplines—like study—that are destructive and ways that are…

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May 18, 2018 Holy Hunger Do you see what God wants to bestow on us if we'd only give him the room to do so? He withholds no good thing from us, but sometimes our lives are too full to receive it. Fasting is a way to make…

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December 6, 2024 Heightened Awareness

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September 27, 2024 To Listen is To Love We don't understand the power of listening or its centrality to spiritual growth. We underestimate the immense treasures we can give and receive through listening—to each other, to God, and to our…

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May 3, 2024 God’s Gaze

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March 15, 2024 The Bread of Mercy Not forgiving others leads to bitterness. Bitterness is a hairball clogging the pipe of God’s life flowing into and through us, a chain that binds us, a distorted lens that blinds us. “We don’t…