Join us for our final podcast of the Soul Care series, on the gift and challenge of silence prayer. "God's first language is silence. Everything else, is a poor translation." -Fr. Thomas Keating Pray as you go: Centering Prayer Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of … Continue reading Soul Care Week Six: Encountering Silence
Soul Care Week Five: Getting Lost
Join us on the podcast this week as we talk about the spiritual practice of getting lost, learning to navigate the wilderness of place and soul. The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask. - Nancy Newhall Pray as you go: The Welcoming Prayer Sink into this three part … Continue reading Soul Care Week Five: Getting Lost
Soul Care Week Four: Nourishing Creativity
Join us on the podcast this week as we talk about creativity as a spiritual practice! When you were a child, you knew yourself to be co-creator of the universe. But little by little you forgot who you were. -Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy Pray as you go: Put Two Things Together The practice of creativity … Continue reading Soul Care Week Four: Nourishing Creativity
Soul Care Week Three: Offering Gratitude
Join us on the podcast this week as we talk about the science, the art, and the spirituality of gratitude. Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life. -Rumi Pray As You Go: The Examen Prayer St. Ignatius of Loyola was a 14th century catholic priest who founded the … Continue reading Soul Care Week Three: Offering Gratitude
Soul Care Week Two: Wearing Skin
Are our bodies important for our spiritual lives? Join us on the podcast this week as we muse about how wearing skin, being peoples of flesh and blood, can shape and nurture our spiritual lives. The miracleis not walking on water, but on the earth." -Thich Nhat Hanh Pray as you go: Walking Meditation Today, … Continue reading Soul Care Week Two: Wearing Skin
Soul Care Week One: Becoming Present
The best preparation for a life of prayer is simply to become more intensely human -Kenneth Leech The practice of presence is about paying attention, waking up to the world around us. Each day this week we will post meditations, images, poetry and activities inviting us to become present--in our surroundings, with our deepest selves, … Continue reading Soul Care Week One: Becoming Present