Virtual Pause

October 14, 2024 In this week’s episode I begin to talk about my experience on the Camino de Santiago in Spain and some of the aha’s I discovered along the way! The biggest and most surprising was joy! We will walk through what joy is and reflect on what keeps us from experiencing joy in our lives. Our listening portion: Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can shake, a love t...

September 30th, 2024 Off I go tomorrow to start my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. I reflected this week how much I am leaning on “so that” in order to trust that I am supposed to take this journey. “I am going, so that I can get a glimpse of what is next in my life, so that I can be prepared for a season of empty nesting, so that I can get clarity on my work, so that…..” What if we switched...

September 23rd, 2024 In a week, I am embarking on a pilgrimage called the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I am learning that the journey doesn’t start when I get there - I am being prepared for it now. In a desire to be open to what the pilgrimage has in store for me, I am finding that I am holding things in which I need to let go. In today’s episode we will talk about those things we hold onto, and...

September 9, 2024 When our minds are in the forefront, which is how all usually live our lives, our bodies are running around fulfilling the mind’s agenda, our hearts are in self-protective mode, and our minds tell our soul that it doesn’t even exist. We may take a break from all of that periodically, like in a Pause, but it’s just a break – it doesn’t awaken our souls enough to transcend to the r...

July 29, 2024 In this episode I reflect upon how I can see pausing, or being still, has had a long-term shift in me. I am in a place right now where I am trying to support someone in crisis. I am seeing how just being there for them, just showing up, is actually all they need from me. For our pause practice today, we will identify someone in our life who needs a pause, a breath, healing, some hope...

July 1, 2024 Even when we find ourselves grounded and feeling stable, it doesn’t take long for our thoughts to be distracted and we are back into the chaos.  Richard Rohr says that “silence precedes, undergirds, and grounds everything. We cannot just think of it as an accident, or as something unnecessary. Unless we learn how to live there, go there, abide in this different phenomenon, the rest of...

June 10, 2024 “All men seek peace first of all with themselves. That is necessary because we do not naturally find rest even in our being. We have to learn to commune with ourselves before we can communicate with other men and with God. A man who is not at peace with himself necessarily projects his interior fighting into the society of those he lives with, and spreads a contagion of conflict all...

June 10, 2024 There are times in our lives where we feel that we may not where we are going. We may be in a space of waiting, or not fully immersed into one thing. We may feel lost or purposelessness in the ordinary. Letting go of needing to know where we are going, being seen a certain way, and feeling a sense of security, allows us to be content in the place where God has us. When I am among the...

June 3, 2024 Today we are going to do a longer pause – taking more time to settle our bodies, quiet our minds, open our hearts, and connect to our source. So if you can spread out we will be on our feet doing some movements. “Awaken us to the Oneness of all things, to the beauty and truth of Unity. May we become aware of the interdependence of all living things, and come to know You in everything,...

May 20, 2024 Sometimes when we are in flux – uncertainty – in one or more aspects of our lives, we begin to try and control something to alleviate the discomfort that flux brings. And that control brings chaos in our lives and the lives of others. That is the flux factor – the unintended consequences of our behaviors when we are feeling out of control. In today’s episode, we will identify where we...

April 28, 2024 Looking at an oak covered with moss this weekend, I realized that my current situation is like the clump of moss in the tree. And I am trying to solve the problem by staying inside the moss. As Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” Today we are going to shake off the moss and let ourselves be free from it, reaching up to the sun-lit, s...

April 15, 2024 Sometimes we need a little help loving others and loving ourselves! Today I will guide us through an adaptation of a Loving-Kindness Meditation from John Kabat-Zinn to help us experience a sense of love for ourselves and our community. I will then follow it up with this encouragement from Ephesians 3:17-19 “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,    may have power...

April 8, 2024 From James Finley, writer of April 8th, 2024 Daily Meditation CAC.org. “The essential, that which is given to us in the metaphorical fire of this quiet oneness, never imposes itself on us, while the unessential is constantly imposing itself on us. We begin to wonder, “How can I learn not to get so caught up in the complexities of the day-to-day that I keep losing my sense of connecte...

April 1, 2024 When we exert our “will”, pull up our boot straps, and keep going and pushing, we often become depleted and depressed. Perhaps we are trying to make a path for ourselves that is not intended for us. Often when we let go of what we think we should be and do, then an authentic gift shows up in us that we never knew we had. In this episode, we will identify those places in our lives whe...

March 25, 2024 I am realizing how much I hold on to my self-concept, which makes it so that I am resistant to saying yes to something new. In this episode, we will identify how we are fortifying our self-concept and resisting, and then let go so we can say yes to the adventure that awaits for us. The Healing Time Finally on my way to yes I bump into All the places where I said no To my life All th...

March 4, 2024 Do you feel like you have some stirrings to do something – maybe noticing the shifts and changes in your soul or in your life, and wondering if you should pursue them? If we want to move throughout life with stability – peace, wholeness, and integration – we have to do some from a place of stillness. In today’s episode we will examine our stirrings to do, from a place of being still....

February 26, 2024 Today I will lead us on a journey where we begin with identifying what is occupying our thoughts (to do list, worries, etc.), and moving out of our minds, through our surroundings, and in a different environment. We will notice what we experience in that environment, and then bring that experience back down to our list of what is in our mind, and see how the perspective changes.

February 12, 2024 Let’s stop the noise and the requests and trying to figure it all out in our heads, leaving our prayers to be ineffective incessant babbling. Let’s take just half an hour and let go, and experience the gifts and surprising answers in the midst of silence. “Deafened by the voice of desire You are unaware the Beloved lives In the core of your heart. Stop the noise and You will hear...

February 5, 2024 What does it look like to live out of the fullness we were designed for? In today’s Pause, we will identify that seed or blossoming thing in us that is uniquely ours. We will look at what obstacles keep it from blossoming into its fullness and let go. We will see how our fullness will only be realized when it helps remove obstacles so that someone else may experience their fullnes...

January 29, 2024 If we are honest with ourselves, we deeply desire to figure out how to be okay. We want to design our lives so that nothing bothers us, but everything is structured so that we will be okay. We wander, we strive, we perpetuate our chaos trying to find our way to be okay. Instead, we have to let go, open up, and release our obsessions with making everything okay, so that we can just...

January 22, 2024 Have you ever experienced an actual snownado? It’s terrifying to watch – and you have no choice but to be in the midst of it. How often during chaos we resist, fight, or try to control the circumstances. Yet if we sit in the snownado and actually look up toward the light, the chaos can be used for a purpose. As Dr. Otis Moss III states, we can turn chaotic energy to purpose, we ca...

January 8, 2024 Instead of setting rigid “goals”, what is being cultivated in you?  In today’s pause, grab a piece of paper and some markers, as I lead you through drawing a tree. We will review last year’s fruit we produced and look at the branches that needed to be lobbed off. We will look towards 2024 as ways to firmly plant our roots into deep soil and cultivate the values and virtues that com...

December 18, 2023 We so often build our house in vain or toil in labor, yet as the Psalm 127 continues God “pours gifts on his beloved while they slumber.” In this episode we will identify what we are building or toiling after, and then focus on releasing why we are doing this, so we can “surrender and slumber” and hear the divine guidance as we move throughout the world, moving with and as love....

December 4, 2023 In this season of holiday craze, I am finding myself from time to time throwing an Angie tantrum. I easily blame my frustration and irritability on the chaos around me. Yet when I actually take the time to be still, I see that there is yearning underneath the chaos. In this episode, we will spend some time getting quiet and identifying what our souls are longing for. Listening pas...

November 27, 2023 Thanksgiving Holiday can bring about joy and absolute stress and strain as we navigate family, locations, busyness, and chaos. These things can embed themselves in us, shaping the way we think and interact and move in the world. Sometimes these things are conscious, yet often times they are trapped in us unconsciously. In today’s episode, we are going to get the turkey out! Relea...