Welcome friends to Word-Seeds. Here we take a step into the Scripture, read the gospel for Sunday morning, prepare our hearts. This week, read here first: Matthew 5:13-20. Stop at pictures ? They are wide open spaces for contemplation in the middle of…
Sleeping with bread was the Archbishop of the Southern Cone’s idea, back in the days when we were on the Anglican frontier (2006) and our Episcopal bishop had told us there were many “Ways, Truths, and Lives” and that Jesus just happened…
He’s sprawled out beside my sleeping husband right now, the little love. They are both passed out on our bed, lights still on. Superman pajama top, Christmas jammy bottom. I found him at the top of the stairs before my…
Dear friends we are in the process of scrubbing our house for renters and interviewing at a new parish but even in chaos I still need to take up this journal and write words, black on white to make sense of my life. Thank…
Did you feel this way too when you were growing thick with life? I feel pregnant (emotionally, not physically, alas) and when I’m pregnant, I can’t breakthrough the poetry mind, creativity is elusive. I feel stretched full and weary at…
From Henri Nouwen: “The literal translation of the words ‘pray always’ is ‘come to rest.’ The Greek word for rest is hesychia, and hesychasm is the term which refers to the spirituality of the desert. A hesychast is a…
She filled her prayer closet with a grid of sticky notes, covered the walls with God’s promises. This is unconditional love, cross-shaped evangelism if I’ve ever seen it. This mother’s story cannot help but inspire you. If you have 10…
John Wesley provokes us to prayer with this quote: “God does nothing on earth save in answer to believing prayer.” In response, I tremble and humble and know that my meager prayer life has not warranted calling down the kingdom to settle solid on…
There is a great comfort in the knowledge that the world does not revolve around us. We rest in powerlessness. We celebrate our smallness. We have no ability to change a mind, mend a heart, plant truth, make…
So, friends, let’s make this feasting on the present moment crazy simple. This is how I usually start: Open one sense at a time for about a minute. Allow your usual pattern of thoughts to fall away and instead use…