The practice of contemplative prayer is teaching me how much of life is actually a practice of returning to what matters most over and over again. This insight has been a beautiful and unexpected gift. Where would you benefit from gently returning in some way to what matters most in your life?
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I longed deeply for healing in the midst of the brokenness in my life, but I then often tried to flee from the discomforts and challenges of healing when it actually arrived. What would it look like to stand boldly with gratitude in the “rain” of healing I’ve longed for even as it also brings the inconvenience of soaking me to the skin?
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Our spiritual practices can often seem like added chores on our to-do lists, but they are actually practice in opening to grace and the voice of Spirit that can sustain in life’s ordinary times as well as in life’s most broken places.
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What if every breath is a prayer? A wordless, undemanding, formless prayer that keeps us connected to that which is Divine as it keeps us connected to life. What if the Divine is as close as our next breath?
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My understanding of prayer has shifted over time from a very word-based exercise to a more expansive one that allows even my creative work to be a form of prayer in a real and engaging way.
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