Spark My Muse

On Eater lilies, remembrance, fasting, hope, rebirth and two poems to help us as we settle into this holiday week 2024.

Today we are probing our sense of mystery and wonder: Experiencing awe is vital for human flourishing.

Today, is about dancing in the darkness. Thriving in the middle of chaos. I review by Jordan T. Jones about a book by Rev Dr Otis Moss III. Don't miss the links and photos at PART 2: the companion page  • Please remember you can be an ongoing Patron (supporter) by going here. It unlocks many extras: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100268159 To get the spiritual formation book I wrote (The Wild Land...

Host, Lisa Colon DeLay offers a reflection on the relationship between righteousness and contempt.

A little-known top theologian of the last century, Sergius N. Bulgakov regarding the coming of the Kingdom on Ascension Day.

Host Lisa Colon DeLay reflects on what is meant by Angel's Bread (the virtue) that combat the vice Dragon's Wine according to Evagrius Ponticus, via Fr. Gabriel Bunge

Unpacking part of a book review (by Michael O'Neil) on "The Doors of the Seas" by David Bentley Hart on issues of God's Providence, Sovereignty, Free Will, suffering, evil and more.

Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 CE) was an expert of the inner life and today host Lisa Colon DeLay reads from Fr. Gabriel Bunge's book to learn what Evagrius meant by "Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread".

Host Lisa Colon DeLay reads Jasmine Bellamy's guidance for doing inner work to be a compassionate and competent leader.

Today host Lisa Colon DeLay explores the treasures of deeper mysteries that are a grace. More from Carl McColman.

Learning from Henri Nouwen how "in our own woundedness, we can become a source of life for others"

Today is an unveiling of Carmen's scintillating new translation of the classic: "Practice of the Presence" about Brother Lawrence (Nicholas Herman).

Host Lisa Colon DeLay speaks about hope and disappointment two things we may tend to feel at the end of a year and beginning of a new one at sometimes.

Closing out 2023, host Lisa Colon DeLay shares insights on forgiveness from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and the African concept of ubuntu that can make the future possible.

Host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you just a bit more from Bishop Kallistos Ware. This time about personhood.

Hot Lisa Colon DeLay brings you one of the most influential people to bring the gifts of Eastern Orthodox Christianity into the view of the English speaking and Evangelical world is the topic today: Reverend and Bishop Kallistos Ware (1934-2022)

Host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you lost history going 340 + years back. Find out how the tiny but mighty Quaker, Benjamin Lay, with his moral compass intact in a time of rampant suffering through international kidnapping, human trafficking, illegal bondage, and forced labor, used outrageous acts of protest gave momentum to the abolitionist movement long before the British colonies of America declare...

A reading from Eugene Peterson's potent book entitled Answering God by host Lisa Colón DeLay

A short reflection on how we can heal from feeling abandoned from host Lisa Colon DeLay. Includes poem by Heidi Barr.

An invitation to feast on your life. Reflections from host Lisa Colon DeLay and a poem by Nobel Prize winner Caribbean luminary, Derek Walcott

Discovering the impossible sadness of silent forests and noisy wars and featuring a poem by Nickole Brown

Reading and reflecting on the event called A Healing Presence in a Traumatized World | James Finley [SSL 282]

Reflecting on good returns and the work of pilgrimage companion Fiona Koefoed Jaspersen (Ordinary Pilgrim)

How we start sinking into the mysteries when the world is confounding

Something about Vespers from my time with the Benedictines in Ponce, PR. The House of Initia Nova