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Listen to the podcast below: https://thepresenceproject.libsyn.com/building-joy-and-resilience Transcript: Why is it that we so easily forget the tables God has set in the wilderness? Instead of staying in a place of celebration after the abundance of connection or the kindness of…
So, before we burst into this new year armed with our color coded goal charts and shouldering the weight of a personal-reno project, let’s be gentle with ourselves. Let’s sit down on the seam of the year and remember who…
Polecat hot springs I almost said “no.” I almost stayed back at the campground tucked in a sleeping bag, with a headlamp tight across my forehead, book opened. I almost stayed warm and safe. Sometimes joy can only be found…
This Advent the world is grieving and tired. I hear so many people say they just want to lay down and binge watch Netflix until the world begins to right again. Moving toward the long dark nights of Winter without…
Join me for a 16 day Advent journey with devotionals and Handel’s Messiah. Yes, please. I’d like to join the Advent journey. Advent is on its way along with the busyness of the pre-Christmas season. Even as the church interprets…
How Interactive Gratitude Changes Everything Through the roller coaster of the covid-19 year, I wanted to bring a practice to help us metabolize emotion in a simple journaling method WITH God. Immanuel Journaling developed by Sungshim Loppnow and written about…
Welcome to the Presence Project! The Presence Project is simple, repeatable tools. Ancient Christian contemplative practices. Modern brain science. This is episode 32, I’m your host, Summer Joy Gross and I’m always looking for ways to take the wisdom of…
The Presence Project is all about helping you find home-base in the heart of God. What do I mean by Home-base? St. Augustine put it this way, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You, O Lord.”…
What follows is a prayer practice of Ignatian Imaginative Contemplation, the goal of which is encountering the mystery of Jesus by walking into a story of the gospel with our senses fully awake. It’s visual prayer and an invitation to…