Inspiration

Breathing Life

Reflections for contemplative living

Today, I’m putting my laziness aside and listening to the voice of God who wants my temple to be cared for the way it was intended. A body meant for movement, love, and care, not abuse, judgment, and sloth. Where my physical core, my foundation is strong and allows for stability in the rest of my body. Today, I’m breathing in life.

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Inspiration

Fresh Start

Daily thoughts for contemplative living

Happy New Year! It’s a new year, a new day, and a fresh start for new beginnings. A time for a new mindset and waking up to what’s real. A time to focus on the wholeness of relationships with God, with myself, and with others, living integrated in body, mind, and spirit. Living a contemplative life of meaning.

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Finding God's Goodness

Week 52. Seeing. Sacredness of Breath.

Valuing others is justice. The virtue of love grows our generosity.

As we ponder another new year, I want to extend an invitation to you to dream a little. To take a few minutes to escape the demands of the world and stoke the fire that lives in your heart. You know the one, aching to know the truth and yearning to really love. Like Ruah, the sacred breath of life which shows us the fullness of love.

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Finding God's Goodness

Week 52. Seeing. Clearly.

Valuing others is justice. The virtue of love grows our generosity.

In the recent season of Advent, I was deep in the waiting. A place where I learned to be comfortable in the darkness and where expectations got shattered so I could live in expectancy. The dark is the place where the struggles of my life are the crosses that I carry, where the burden is heavy and my heart cries out for help.  Where I secretly hope someone might ease my burden and help me along the way. But I must remain strong.

Or that’s what I keep telling myself.

The shimmering light calls me forward to resurrection and rebirth. Where I become a modern Mary where my “Yes” deepens with every breath I take. Each inhale expands gratitude and humility. I see with clarity how I’m running the marathon between my head and my heart. A race where generosity and love win with every breath I take. 

Lord, thank you for a new generous life where I see clearly each day.

Finding God's Goodness

Week 52. Seeing. Without Judgment.

Valuing others is justice. The virtue of love grows our generosity.

Jesus complains when the crowds use worldly standards to size him up. They are caught up in their opinions and all too easily pass judgment on Him. They accuse Jesus of being possessed by a demon, a drunkard, and so on.

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Week 52. Seeing. Eyes of Faith.

Valuing others is justice. The virtue of love grows our generosity.

God comes to us in many and various ways each day. Sometimes he reveals his goodness to us when he allows us to succeed in life. Other times he permits trials in our life so that we can cling more surely to Him.

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Week 52. Seeing. Supreme Good.

Valuing others is justice. The virtue of love grows our generosity.

When I am in love with God and “fearing” him above all things, I am rooted in a power that transcends space and time. A power that governs the universe in its entirety, a power that is greater than life and death.

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Finding God's Goodness

Week 52. Seeing. My Way, My Life.

Generosity is born through love.

Merry Christmas! God, as Christ, became human to help us change our mindset and to give us new life. Born humble and in complete surrender this gives us a new way to see, a new way to live life.

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