-
Sabbath Practices for Going Deeper
We yield, because you, beyond us, are our God. We are your creatures met by your holiness, by your holiness made our true selves. And we yield. Amen. — Walter Brueggemann I have always felt drawn to a daily time of quiet reflection and prayer. That practice has become more essential than ever, as I…
-
Going Deeper
“It is not you who shapes God, but God who shapes you.” I came to Shalem dried out and dusty-wilderness clay grown hard and stale. I came parched for living water. I came needing renewal of my heart and soul-to be re-oriented, re-presented, re-purposed, re-shaped by the One who is at work even in me…
-
I Surrender to God
Believing that one should end the year the way one would like to begin the new year, I spent the last three days prior to New Year’s Eve in prayer, meditation, and on a semi-fast. If I had been at Kripalu, my favorite yoga retreat center located in the Berkshires, I would have been experiencing…
-
Restlessness in Prayer
(from Will and Spirit by Gerald G. May. p.318) Appreciation of silence does not come with the same ease and readiness to all people. Some find no difficulty at all in sitting still for hours at a time. Others become fidgety and frustrated after only a few minutes. It has been my experience that there…
-
 The Principle of Likeness
To have a spiritual life is to recognize early on that there is always a similarity and coherence between the seer and the seen, the seekers and what they are capable of finding. You will seek only what you have partially already discovered and seen within yourself as desirable. Spiritual cognition is invariably re-cognition. Call…
-
Seeking The One Who Has Already Found Us
Scripture says that God is endlessly involved in active, intimate love with us. According to the psalmist, God formed us in the womb and knows our every thought before we speak; we could fly to the uttermost parts of the universe, and God would still be with us. God spoke through Jeremiah: “I alone know…