on love discovered

on love discovered

  Love— mortals have sung it’s praise before and it will be sung again over and over throughout time forever… and yet, with each new song, the bard that sings discovers something new ever adding to that mound of understanding— nothing is new, nothing is...
on transformational silence

on transformational silence

Have you ever sat in silence and come away refreshed? Learning to savor silence is a discipline. One has to develop a taste for it. For most, it doesn’t come easy. Try this experiment – set a timer for 3 minutes, sit in a comfortable position, close your...
on breath prayer

on breath prayer

My journey in contemplative prayer started years ago when “breath prayer” helped me stay alive through a horrible health crisis in a remote area where I was alone and without help. I didn’t know it was “breath prayer” at the time –...
on twirls and whirls

on twirls and whirls

A friend wrote me about my book recently. “Your words, like your doodles, are intricate and full of twists and turns, looking this way and that, inside and out, up and down, through and through…” she said. That reminded me of a cold, grey day in...
on lectio divina

on lectio divina

Lectio Divina (Latin for “divine reading”) is a simple but powerful method of praying with Scripture that engages with four disciplines – reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. The practice of Lectio Divina was first established in the 6th century by...
on body posture and prayer

on body posture and prayer

Why do we bow our heads or kneel when we pray? Why do we reach upwards with our arms or bring our palms together? Or reach out with both hands and open up our hands in a receiving gesture? Does body posture really matter? Hand gestures and body posture communicate in...