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Quotation of the Day
“In a society that overvalues progress, development, and personal achievement, the spiritual life becomes quite easily performance oriented: ‘On what level am I now, and how do I move to the next one?’...
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Watch Yourself.
Romans 11:13-24 “13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry 14in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save some of them....
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Quotation of the Day – Henri Nouwen
“The various disciplines of the spiritual life are meant for freedom and are reliable means for the creation of helpful boundaries in our lives within which God’s voice can be heard, God’s presence...
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another unarmed black teen killed by police #mikebrown
No older than some of the dear students with whom I spent the last week at choir camp in the NC mountains, the unarmed Mike Brown was shot and killed yesterday in a St. Louis suburb. I read the news...
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listening to the heart of God
“But I still my soul and make it quiet, like a child upon its mother’s breast; my soul is quieted within me.” (Psalm 131:2, BCP) Babies know when Momma is holding them; Dad doesn’t sound or feel quite...
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fake it until it makes you
- the point of liturgy. I’ve heard worship in the Episcopal Church described as a method of “fake it till you make it.” I think this is close to right. There’s no requirement or expectation that a...
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screwy time
this morning, I lit the candles in our little chapel for Morning Prayer. There’s something immediately calming about striking a match, hearing the little snaps of fire starting up, and igniting a...
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I’m not prayed-up enough yet.
There’s this apocryphal story from the high school I attended, TCS, wherein our faithful and frightening (maybe just to me–her expectations and deadlines helped me through college, but were so...
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shavasana in life
I used to think that shavasna was a cop-out pose, the liturgical lie-down at the end of a yoga session that was for the old ladies who really didn’t have the physical acuity left in them anymore. Maybe...
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Prayer as Second-Nature
Emily:Was thinking about this post yesterday when conversing about prayer, familiarity, change, and growth… Originally posted on hope of things not seen: Back in June, when I made my first voyage back...
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Quotation of the Day
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:1, 10 In a...
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Quotation of the Day; A Prayer by St. Augustine
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems jury and endless, the skies grey and threatening; when our lives have no music in...
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Is God Calling?
Has God ever told you to go raise someone from the dead? Years ago, a friend thought God had told her to go to a stranger’s funeral, touch the body, and tell it to get up. Last week, as I was telling...
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reverse-affirmations
Joel Osteen is on to something. The name-it-and-claim-it mentality can be a powerful psychological tool. If we only believe hard enough and long enough, our minds will prevail. The universe cannot...
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turning parishioners into monastics
Yes, I believe that everyone should be a monk, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. I’m not quite suggesting that all Christians move into the wilderness and live in cells and never talk to anyone....
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Friday Icon
This week, I’ve been thinking about the thief on the cross to whom Jesus promises, “today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). It’s never too late to start over. As the shine of...
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crying with the psalmist
“How long, O Lord, how long?” I wonder how long it is that my mind will be in this space, that my refrain will be from the second part of the third verse of psalm 6, “low long, O Lord, how long?” It...
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rock your body right
I think I’ve never gotten over throwing tantrums. Toddlers, who haven’t yet learned to use words to articulate their feelings (not that us adults do much better in heated moments!) are famous for...
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yoga as spiritual discipline
What are you overcompensating for? Last month, spending some time with my mother-in-law, she talked about how her injured knee was wrecking havoc with her hips and back; other parts of her skeleton...
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some things change, some things stay the same
Some days require double-strength stress relief tea. Some days just feel more anxious; my body aches and I can’t concentrate. Sometimes I make up a theory about why I notice a lot more tension some...
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