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October 2018

October 02, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: More Than Just Sitting Quietly

More Than Just Sitting Quietly When you see someone listening to sacred stillness they can...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Seeing Ourselves Clearly

Seeing Ourselves Clearly The greatest, longest, most challenging struggle of our lives is becoming who...

September 27, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: How Do We Want to Be With God?

How Do We Want to Be With God? I know people who believe they can...

September 25, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Finding Our Path Into Stillness

Finding Our Path Into Stillness Some of us have a difficult time beginning a contemplative...

September 22, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: As Our Days Grow Darker

As Our Days Grow Darker It is easy for most of us to fool ourselves...

September 20, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Stepping Into Walking Prayer

Stepping Into Walking Prayer Walking is important to me. I walk whenever I can. I relate...

September 18, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Hurrying Into Stillness

Hurrying Into Stillness More and more of us are talking about the importance of mindfulness...

September 15, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Leaning Into Uncertainty

Leaning Into Uncertainty Life can feel like we are sailing a small raft on...

September 11, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Beyond Voices We Remember

Beyond Voices We Remember Many of us have minds full of voices we remember, particularly...

September 08, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Where is Spiritual Life Taking Us?

Where is Spiritual Life Taking Us? One of the things I love about my work...

September 04, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: How Stillness Helps Heal Us

When Stillness Helps Heal Us Sometimes we push ourselves too far, or allow other people...

September 01, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: The Spiritual Life of Work

The Spiritual Life of Work I live in a society which believes in the value...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Leading Like a Monk: When We Start to Feel a Little Lost

When We Start to Feel a Little Lost I like to have the sense I...

August 28, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Ordinary, Everyday Stillness

Ordinary, Everyday Stillness It is easy for us to forget ordinary, everyday stillness. We get...

August 25, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Sharing What We Have

Sharing What We Have Generosity is sharing what we have. We might assume generosity is...

August 21, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Our Stillness Drought

Our Stillness Drought I live in a part of the world where drought is becoming...

August 18, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Waking Up Every Morning

Waking Up Every Morning A spiritual discipline I have practiced longer than I can remember...

August 14, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Driving Into Stillness

Driving Into Stillness Each year I drive north, up the California coast, into stillness. The...

August 11, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Our Strength is in Our Struggle

Our Strength is in Our Struggle We all experience times, moments or days or longer,...

August 07, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: The Mercy of Stillness

The Mercy of Stillness Our world tends to forget about mercy. We assume there is...

August 04, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Asking Questions Out Loud

Asking Questions Out Loud Asking questions out loud was not particularly encouraged when I was...

August 02, 2018

Leading Like a Monk: How Do We Find Time for Thinking?

How Do We Find Time for Thinking? We live our lives at the speed of...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: The Stillness of Dark Spaces

The Stillness of Dark Spaces Each week I help facilitate a group of people who...

July 28, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Living Into Sacred Mystery

Living Into Sacred Mystery The mysteries we know do not prepare us to live into...

July 24, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Pushing Out From the Shore

Pushing Out From the Shore Many of us have an understanding of contemplation as like...

July 21, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Recognizing There is More

Recognizing There is More We stand on a beach looking out over the expanse of...

July 17, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Many Silences, One Stillness

Many Silences, One Stillness People sometimes ask me about the difference between stillness and silence....

July 14, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: When Things Spin Out of Control

When Things Spin Out of Control It can be easy to feel like the world...

July 10, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: We Go Beyond Where Voices Tell Us to Go

We Go Beyond Where Voices Tell Us to Go Our minds are filled with voices...

July 07, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: The Spiritual Practice of Humor

The Spiritual Practice of Humor We live in a time of tension and conflict, arguing...