Friday Florilegium
For this week’s Florilegium, here is a stunning time-lapse video of Yosemite’s beauty. (Please click the pause button on Music for Dreaming to the r...
For this week’s Florilegium, here is a stunning time-lapse video of Yosemite’s beauty. (Please click the pause button on Music for Dreaming to the r...
We often ask what disciplines will help us to live more contemplatively or prayerfully. The following quote is some of the most profound wisdom on the topic of ...
The third challenge I find to contemplative awareness and the body (mind, heart, spirit) is that we often continue to do things that we know from past experienc...
In the past two posts, I’ve written about sacred space as a reminder of God’s presence, and as a call to prayer. Beyond having a set-apart area̵...
Where there is no beauty, put beauty, and you will find beauty. –Francis of Assisi, adapted. One of the books I read when I began to explore church and fa...
I’ve always been a “I’ll do it in the morning” kind of person. Dishes stayed in the sink and on the counter until I shuffled out into th...
When I began doing Sabbath Space with the theology grad students, I simply put out crayons and play-dough and anything else I thought might tempt them to play o...
Yesterday, I read a fabulous children’s story aloud to Jane and Jack, The Bootmaker and the Elves. I loved the story, the Texan twang of the dialogue, and...
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. –Annie Dillard We are each artists of the lives we’ve been given. Each morning we wake ...