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Thinking In Reverse

In my recent podcast interview with Father Theodore, the abbot of an Orthodox monastery, he made an interesting—and to my mind, paradoxical—observation about how we need to “exercise” in our spiritual life just like in your physical life. Here’s what he said:

Brandon Booth

October 11, 2022

Weeping in the "Not Yets"

God always answers prayer in one of three ways- “yes”, “no”, or “not yet”. More often than not, it seems God’s answer to my prayers has been that last one. And the “not yet” feels excruciating-because it feels more like a “no” and it is very hard to tell the difference. Some days, I feel like Job, and I want to raise my fists to God and yell “Why, God? How could you let this happen? When will it end?”

April 18, 2022

Reaching Out

The poor woman in Mark 5, afflicted for over a decade, serves as a most faithful witness to Christ’s work and the healing that comes only from His presence.

January 24, 2022

Hear, Now

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.

Brandon Booth

January 18, 2022

Childlike Prayer

A father is delighted when his little one, leaving off her toys and friends, runs to him and climbs into his arms.

Brandon Booth

January 4, 2022

Celebrating Advent: Week 1

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.

Brandon Booth

November 30, 2021

A Thousand Tiny Shocks to Our Soul

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.

Brandon Booth

September 21, 2021

God, I'm trying to manage it all again.

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.

Brandon Booth

August 25, 2021

Eyes of Love

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.

Laura Sharp

July 20, 2021

God IS-es too much!

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.

Brandon Booth

July 13, 2021

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