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May 2019

May 21, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Are We Getting Healthier?

Are We Getting Healthier? Many of us focus our efforts on getting healthier during spring....

May 18, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Are We Getting Healthier?

Are We Getting Healthier? Many of us focus our efforts on getting healthier during spring....

May 14, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Creating Opportunities for Stillness

Creating Opportunities for Stillness I know people who say they would like their lives to...

May 11, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Is Spiritual Life About Doing or Being?

Is Spiritual Life About Doing or Being? Some of us focus on the things spiritual...

May 09, 2019

Monastic Strategies: Everyday Liturgies For Our Spiritual Lives

Everyday Liturgies for Our Spiritual Lives Some of us believe our calendars are like jigsaw...

May 07, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Comfort in the Stillness of Familiar Things

Comfort in the Stillness of Familiar Things I practice a form of listening to sacred...

May 04, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Walking Our Own Everyday Labyrinths

Walking Our Own Everyday Labyrinths Some people find labyrinths a little confusing. They are afraid...

May 02, 2019

Monastic Strategies: Do We Need to Be a Mystic to Become a Monk?

Do We Need to Be a Mystic to Become a Monk? Many of us think...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: We Hear Our Stories in the Stillness

We Hear Our Stories in the Stillness Some of us try to follow an intentional,...

April 27, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Hope on a Spring Morning

Hope on a Spring Morning The sun dawns a little earlier on each spiring morning....

April 25, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Listening to Stillness in the Hospital

Stillness in the Hospital When I go to the hospital to pray it is often...

April 20, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Why Is Easter Important?

What Makes Easter Important? When I hear people talk about Easter it sounds like the...

April 16, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: In Thy Stillness Let My Heart Rest

In Thy Stillness Let My Heart Rest Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote Through the silence of...

April 13, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Not Knowing How the Story Ends

Not Knowing How the Story Ends The drama of our lives is not knowing how...

April 11, 2019

Monastic Strategies: Setting Free the Dragons Within Us

Setting Free the Dragons Within Us Some of us think spiritual life is about holding...

April 09, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Where Can We Go to Find More?

Where Can We Go to Find More? We live in a world where almost everyone...

April 06, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: When Spiritual Life Gets a Little Intense

When Spiritual Life Gets a Little Intense Sometimes spiritual life can get a little intense....

April 04, 2019

Monastic Strategies: Why Does Lent Have to Last So Long?

Why Does Lent Have to Last So Long? For many of us it seems like...

April 02, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Are We Really Paying Attention?

Are We Really Paying Attention? Many of us like to think we are good listeners,...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: When We Take Time For Rest

When We Take Time For Rest We are almost at the end of March, moments...

March 28, 2019

Monastic Strategies: Living Into Our Broken Places

Our Broken Places Many of us believe spiritual life is about helping us feel joy....

March 26, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: When We Take Time for Listening

When Do We Take Time for Listening? Many of us feel we are always running...

March 23, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: You Changed My Life

You Changed My Life "You changed my life" is one of the most powerful things...

March 19, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: The Final Morning of Winter

The Final Morning of Winter We are almost there. This is the final morning of...

March 16, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: We Pray For Those Who Have Died

We Pray For Those Who Have Died We pray for all those who have died....

March 14, 2019

Monastic Strategies: Being Contemplative in the City

Being Contemplative in the City Some of us believe it is impossible to be contemplative...

March 12, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Sacred Stillness Restores Us

Sacred Stillness Restores Us We like to believe we understand how life works. While we...

March 09, 2019

Practices From the Inside Out: Spiritual Life is Beginning to Bloom

Spiritual Life is Beginning to Bloom I was born and raised in the country far...

March 07, 2019

Monastic Strategies: The Next Day and the Day After That

The Next Day and the Day After That Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the first day...

March 05, 2019

Listening to Sacred Stillness: The Stillness of Today

The Stillness of Today Today by Mary Oliver Today I’m flying low and I’m not...