Welcoming God with Open Arms

While Lent is sometimes thought of as a season to give up something, this Lent comes after a year of pandemic and unrest that has many feeling like they’ve already given up a lot. For some it has meant no in-person visits with family or friends for close to a year. Some have lost jobs. […]

March 03, 2021 by Mary van Balen 1 Comment
Categories: Community, Compassion, Contemplation in Action, Contemplative Leadership, Contemplative Living, Contemplative Reading, Contemplative Spirituality, Continuous Prayer, Coronavirus, Lent, Listening, Loss, Love, Non-duality, Pandemic, Personal Spiritual Deepening, Prayer, Self Compassion, Service, Spiritual Deepening, spiritual direction, spiritual discipline, spiritual growth, spirituality at work, and spirituality in community. Tags: awareness, body prayer, community, compassion, contemplation, contemplative tradition, Covid Lent, Deep listening, discernment, Geroge Herbert, God, grief, grounding, healing, Holy Presence, hope, Hospitality, Inspiration, Jerry May, Lent, listening, love, Mary van Balen, meaning of contemplative, Mr. Rogers, peace, prayer, presence, Receptivity, silence, spiritual growth, spiritual practice, spirituality, suffering, The Dark Night of the Soul, trust, and Welcoming God. Formats: Friday Blog. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.

Healing Prayer for the World

The other day I found myself weeping over the state of our world. I felt deep grief and pain; I call it being heartsick. I felt moved to seek out another person so I could share this deep pain. As we sat together and I wept, I felt comforted. I told of the troubles I […]

September 09, 2020 by Patience Robbins
Categories: Community, Compassion, Contemplation in Action, Contemplative Living, Contemplative Reading, Contemplative Spirituality, Continuous Prayer, Discernment, Listening, Loss, Love, Non-duality, Prayer, Self Compassion, Service, Spiritual Deepening, spiritual direction, spiritual discipline, spiritual growth, and spirituality in community. Tags: awareness, community, compassion, contemplative tradition, discernment, Dorothy Day, Etty Hillesum, Gandhi, God, grief, grounding, healing, hope, Inspiration, Jerry May, listening, love, Martin Luther King Jr., peace, prayer, presence, richard rohr, silence, spiritual growth, spiritual practice, spirituality, St Francis, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi, suffering, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Merton, and trust. Formats: Friday Blog. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.

Nature’s Healing

Today’s post is from the writings of the late Gerald May …Nature’s teaching is also a healing. And though we must indeed be taught, it is the healing that we need most. We have been fractured. We have been broken off from the nature of the world, broken away from the nature of one another, broken […]

April 04, 2019 by Gerald May 2 Comments
Categories: Contemplative Spirituality and Nature and spirituality. Tags: healing, Jerry May, and nature. Formats: Article, Article by Shalem Staff, and eNews Article.

Maybe, sometimes,
in the midst of things going terribly wrong,
something is going just right.

~Gerald May

 

Categories: Continuous Prayer, Loss, Prayer, and Self Compassion. Tags: Gerald May and Jerry May. Formats: Monday Moment and Quote.

Letting God Lead

Today’s post is by the late Gerald May There is a huge difference, I have found, between acting as if God were leading—which is what I do when my ego tries to decide and implement what God wants—and really letting God lead, which happens when my ego stops filtering and controlling and begins simply to […]

September 09, 2016 by Gerald May 1 Comment
Categories: Contemplative Living, Contemplative Spirituality, Nature and spirituality, and Prayer. Tags: awareness, God, Jerry May, and openness. Formats: Article, Article by Shalem Staff, and Friday Blog. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.