Jesus taught us to pray in secret—in hidden and remote places—in our bedrooms. These places are best suited to growing our faith because in them we can experience God as being here, now.
January 18, 2022
A father is delighted when his little one, leaving off her toys and friends, runs to him and climbs into his arms.
January 4, 2022
The four weeks prior to Christmas are known as Advent. It is traditionally a time of preparation and reflection on both the incarnation and the eventual end of all suffering when Jesus returns in glory and completes the work of restoration and recreation.
November 30, 2021
The little sounds of my kids fighting while I'm trying to be silent. The 24-hour news cycle, all my music and podcasts, binge watching a dumb show. Billboards, internet ads, political posts. Everyday, nearly every minute, the world delivers a thousand tiny shocks of emotion.
September 21, 2021
I'm growing tired of trying to "manage" it all again. I can feel it in my bones. I'm afraid of so much, and I'm trying to manage so many people's perceptions of me. People's good perceptions feel necessary for my survival. Life is starting to feel like an endless series of requirements, and everyone is requiring something different from me. It's too much to carry. I can't be everything that everyone wants me to be.
August 25, 2021
What do you see when you look in the eyes of the Father? Are you avoiding His gaze? I’ve struggled most of my life with performance. My metric for success was often based on the praise and feedback of others, and a fear of failure could make me extremely avoidant in situations where I felt I’d failed.
July 20, 2021
When the Christian mystics experience union with God as "silence" or "nothing," it is not because God is really no "thing," as if he was nonexistent, but because he is not a thing like all other things. God is not one being among many other beings. God IS. And He is-es so much that he overwhelms our perceptive abilities.
July 13, 2021
The phrase "contemplative prayer," sometimes called "centering prayer" is unfortunately vague. Though the term is a modern invention, the method of sitting quietly and "centering" one's entire self on Jesus is deeply rooted in Christian history. Reaching back to Scripture itself.
May 4, 2021
On a certain Thursday afternoon a certain man was working feverishly in his home office. His eyes were glued to the screen in front of him, his hands pecked like hungry chickens at the keyboard.
April 27, 2021
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