Listen to the Presence Project podcast, episode 27 here. Here in the Presence Project we’re in a series on lectio divina which again means, divine reading, or even more simply, reading slowly WITH God. In the last episode we talked…
Ever open your Bible, corners worn from years of use, only to find the words lie flat? The Word is silent and no longer holds the mystery it once had. At first, you double down. You read more chapters each…
We all have people, places, situations that trigger us. And we’re dealing with lots of explicit memory and implicit memory at the holidays. Unfortunately, the holidays can sometimes be a minefield. Whether we’re walking into a full holiday party of…
Gratitude builds our trust in a good God. And speaking our gratitudes out loud, even spending the time reaching for them in the recesses of our mind, gives us a dopamine drip and a serotonin rush which helps build new…
I was sitting in a window seat from Pittsburgh to Atlanta for a noon flight. It was early November. The sun was directly overhead and the sky blue and cloudless. As I leaned my forehead against the plastic…
This particular episode belongs to the breath prayer section of the Presence Project. It’s my real-time learning, the thread I’m holding onto right now. I write to learn, to grow. I write as spiritual practice. This episode is…
Growing up, the Eastern branch of the Huron River ran through our property. Crawdads skittered under rocks and water flowed cold, even in August. It was a creek really, but it was our creek. As our U-shaped stone ranch was being…
Driving behind Andrew’s UHaul, The kids and I were crushed into our minivan with a pile of odds and ends and my mother-in-law who thankfully is a moving genius. It all felt uncomfortably familiar though. This was our third…
Kathy Sicard wrapped the scarf around my head and the world went dark. I felt like I had walked into a movie theater late, groping for chairs, hoping I didn’t end up in somebody’s lap. But Marie…
Brennan Manning in Abba’s Child wrote this: “Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.” But what is the true self? The true self is the person God had…