Suggested listening: Breathe, https://youtu.be/k8PBakPWph4?si=miXDtYYR3fpV2vNr “Be still,and know that I am God.”~Psalm 46:10~ “Without rest, we respond from a survival mode,where everything we meet assumes a terrifying prominence …where everything seems more urgent than it really is,and we react with sloppy desperation …Sabbath honors the necessary wisdom of dormancy.”~Wayne Muller~ The memories of playing in a… Continue reading Exhale
Suggested listening: “It is Well” by MercyMe “My presence will go with you,And I will give you rest.”~Exodus 33:14~ This Lenten season, I am focusing on a different kind of fast. I am trying to pay attention to the wrestling places within me and give them rest. I give space to acknowledge those points without… Continue reading Sabbath
Screenshot Still Waters https://youtu.be/v1IaQvgPsfA?si=FzipvcbFDiX6ngeZ This is the Air I Breathe https://youtu.be/Rg9wV0nfvgg?si=NJ3tMPHZ1DHpGUT5 Rest On Us https://youtu.be/qFxmxTC_K4s?si=ePbLhOENqp_jU6wM The concept of breath bears so much significance, carrying more purpose than simply physical. Invisible and transient, breath is a life-force sourced in eternity. The Hebrew word for breath is Ruach, and its connection to the Spirit of God Ruach… Continue reading Breath
Suggested Listening: “Doxology” by Phil Wickham https://youtu.be/J228TzlS9Co?si=JmxRFkSko62EyXN1 Praise God from whom all blessings flowPraise Him all creatures here belowPraise Him above you heavenly hostsPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost~Bishop Thomas Ken, c. 1674~ “Let praise … not merely thanksgiving, but praise—always form an ingredient of thy prayers.We thank God for what He is to us;… Continue reading Doxology
Listening suggestion: “All Things New” sung by Big Daddy Weave “Summer and winter and springtime and harvestSun, moon and stars in their courses aboveJoin with all nature in manifold witnessTo Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.”~Thomas O. Chisholm~ “Now the Lord God had planted a garden.”~Genesis 2:8~ Here’s to a new year, stretched out before… Continue reading New
“The wind is moving but I am standing stillA life of pages waiting to be filled.”~Place in this World, Michael W. Smith~ “Forget the former things;Do not dwell on the past.See, I am doing a new thing!Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?I am making a way in the wildernessAnd streams in the… Continue reading Solstice
“In the Bleak Midwinter,” rendition by Julia Bloom https://open.spotify.com/track/4Zsq1ULPQoX3vVuM3DHyuu?si=frCQXUMnQ0-X9g4vGCjYwg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3BBucEuF6lhWhzsq9djuZs “In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moanThe earth stood hard as ironWater like a stoneHow snow had fallenSnow on snow on snowIn the bleak mid-winterLong, long agoWhat can I give himPoor as I am?If I were a shepherd I would bring a lambAnd if I were… Continue reading Advent: Love
An Unhurried Hallow: Joy “Darkness was cheap,and Scrooge liked it.”~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol~ “The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”~Psalms 18:28~ Traditionally, our third candle is pink, the liturgical color that represents joy. The third Sunday in Advent has been referred to as Gaudete Sunday. As Philippians 4:1 admonishes us: “Rejoice in the… Continue reading Advent: Joy
An Unhurried Hallow: Peace “Peace I leave with you; my peace I given you.I do not give to you as the world gives.Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”~John 14:27~ “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without… Continue reading Advent: Peace
An Unhurried Hallow: Hope “We are so attached to…our fast, experiential, adrenaline-addicted culturethat we confidently call physical spikes energy and spiritual spikes inspiration.”~ABC, The Sacred Slow, p. 3~ And in the early morning,while it was still dark,He arose and went out and departed to a lonely place,and was praying there.~James 4:8~ What am I looking… Continue reading Advent: Hope
A Walk Down Chamomile Lane 