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...

{Day 28} Friday Florilegium

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 ...

{Day 26} The Contemplative Body, Part 3

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...

{Day 22} Creating a Lectio Table

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...

{Day 15} Color Your Prayer

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...

{Day 14} Friday Florilegium

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...

{Day 13} You are an artist

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 ...