Waiting for Advent – A Prayer from the liturgy of Malabar

Tomorrow I am hoping to upload my Advent 2009 meditation video.  It has taken me a little longer this year because I moved to using a Mac a few months ago and have been on a steep learning curve as I have grappled with Imovie.  At first i thought of giving this year a miss [...]

A Week To Remember

This has been a busy but wonderful week.
Wednesday evening we held a conversation on Turbulent Times Ready or Not, what we believe will be the first of many conversations focusing on future trends.  A group of 25 people crammed into our living room at the Mustard Seed House to hear Phil Bauntrager, the CEO of Sauder Manufacturing [...]

Inspiration from Geez Magazine: Neo Monasticism also known as Ordinary Life in the Neighbourhood

Our good friend, community member and colleague Eliacin Rosario Cruz has just written a thought provoking response to an article published in Geez Magazine – one of my favourite publications.  The original article Changing the Story of Change, raises some important issues.
Hosting visiting groups to New Jerusalem Now, a grassroots addiction treatment community in North [...]

Reflections from the Week

Those of you who have been following my posts this week know that there has been quite a bit of diversity – some reflections on our time here at Tabor, some looking forward to the end of the month and our celebration of All Saints and Halloween, some sharing the resources that I have come [...]

Celtic Prayer Retreat is Over

MSA’s 18th Annual Prayer retreat is over.  We had a great time up on Camano Island and I thought that those of you who cannot make it to the Pacific Northwest would be interested in some of the prayers and photos from the event.  Maybe you would like to conduct your own mini retreat based [...]

Playing Children’s Games As Spiritual Practice

It is a bright and sunny morning in Seattle with the promise of a hot day ahead.  For most of us it is a work day but I think that if we were honest with ourselves we would rather be out playing with the kids so this post below by Julie Clawson seemed appropriate.
Julie describes [...]

Thoughts from Henri Nouwen

This last week, in preparation for our 18th annual Celtic retreat, I have been rereading Henri Nowen’s The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery. It has profoundly impacted me as I have read about the seven months that he spent in a Trappist monastery.  I have read it in conjunction with another compelling book [...]

Surprised By Community: the Spirituality of Blogging

Here is the second of the articles that appeared in the recent MSA Seed Sampler that I wanted to highlight in the series What is a Spiritual Practice. This article is by Tim Mathis who lives in Seattle with his wife Angel.  He currently aspires to be an Episcopal priest, writer and member of the [...]

A Prayer for Pentecost

Here is a litany adapted from the morning and evening prayers that we use at the Mustard Seed House.  I think that it is an appropriate one to use for Pentecost
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God, the light of your Spirit has fallen upon us, 
The seal of your ownership is on us,
You have placed the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
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Pentecost is Coming

May 31st is Pentecost Sunday but for a number of reasons I have been thinking a lot about Pentecost this last week
First because Saturday is Pentecost Seattle, a gathering of leaders from  Mainline, Evangelical, Emergent, Catholic groups co creating an event around the theme of what Faith and Justice looks like in Seattle.  We are [...]