How Much Time Do You Spend on the Porch? Wisdom From Barbara Brown Taylor

Here in Seattle we are enjoying glorious spring weather with lots of sunshine and warm days. The temptation to sit outside and just soak in the glory of God’s creation is overwhelming at times. Trying to work on my book Return to Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray, seems like a total distraction, so I was delighted [...]

10 Steps Towards Transformation by Brittian Bullock

Today’s post comes from Brittian Bullock and was first posted on his blog. ——————————————————————————————————— A skydiver drifted over a hundred miles off course and landed in a dense forest. Strung up in the tree, tangled, and terrified that the night was fast approaching he began to yell out for help. After a few minutes, a [...]

The Labyrinth, The Emotion and Music – by Gil George.

This morning’s post is contributed by our good friend Gil George, whose pregnant wife recently had emergency surgery. It moved me to tears especially when I clicked the link and listened to Gil recite his poem with music in the background. —————————————————————————— This poem has been stirring in me since my wife had to have [...]

Lighten Up: the Art of Laughter, Joy and Letting God – May Synchroblog

I mentioned yesterday that my post was a contribution to the May Synchroblog. Here are the other posts – great stuff and well worth a read. Jeremy Myers at Till He Comes – Lighten Up!  Maria Kettleson Anderson at My Real Journey - The Art of Passionately Lightening Up Melody Harrison at Logic and Imagination – {I [...]

Prayers for The Journey

This weekly roundup of facebook prayers has been fun for me to review – not hard to tell that I am writing a book on prayer as an exercise in love —————————————————— My good friend Tom Balke just sent me this link to “pray as you go”. It is a beautiful meditative prayer (takes about [...]

May I Awaken To Your Love O God

This morning’s post inspired the writing of this prayer: God let your love soak into my soul. May it immerse me in your presence, And permeate every fiber of my being. May I awaken fully to your love O God, So that my heart becomes your dwelling place. May it become the air I breathe, [...]

Let God’s Love Soak into Your Soul

This weekend I have been thinking a lot about the love of God. It is partly because I am working on a new book entitled Return to Our Senses: Reimagining How we Pray. The focus of the book is a quote I found from 16th century mystic Madame Guyon Prayer is an exercise in love”. My [...]

Looking for Partners.

Over the last few months many of you have told me how much you appreciate the content on this blog. Its popularity continues to grow as we post reflections, resources and liturgies from around the world. Some of you regularly use prayers and liturgies that are posted here in your church services and study groups. [...]

The Eve of Epiphany – Saying Goodbye to Christmas

Today is the last day of the Christmas season. Tomorrow we will take down our Christmas tree and lights. We will pack away our advent wreath for another year and replace the poinsettias on our mantle. I always struggle with this because it seems that suddenly we replace the promise and joy of Christmas with [...]

Strengthening Our Backbones – Why Do We Trust in God?

This post is the fifth in the series Whatever happened to Our Backbones?  Whatever Happened to our Backbones? Strengthen You Spiritual Backbones: The Importance of Creeds Strengthen You Spiritual Backbone – Write Your Own Creed   Whatever Happened to Our Backbones – Practices that Give Us Strength I had intended that this would to be [...]