Morning Meditations

In this episode, Henri Nouwen offers a prayer that calls us to live a life of open hands!

In this episode, we learn that learning to receive love from God is the way that we are able to pray for and minister to others.

Today we talk about the idea of quieting our minds enough to consent to the voice of the Spirit that is within us!

In the reading from 1st Thessalonians, we learn that ALL of our life can become an opportunity to pray!

In this episode, we are reminded that God often speaks in the gentle whisper rather than shouting, screaming, or pushing.

In this episode, we learn that one of the most powerful ways that Jesus took on our humanity was feeling abandoned by the Father.

In this episode, we learn that it is in solitude that we are free to receive life as a gift from God!

In this episode we learn to bring our entire selves, including our shadow side.

In this episode, we are reminded that we are living in the time that Jeremiah spoke about when the laws of God are written on our hearts. Prayer is the process of being attentive to that still small voice within!

In this episode, we learn that prayer is more than talking to God, but listening as well. We talk about the practice of repeating a word or a phrase to help still our minds to hear the voice of God.

In this episode, we learn that even our ability to pray is a gracious gift from the God who has been seeking is out!

In this meditation we learn that purity of heart allows us to see God clearly and find rest which in turn draws others to God!

In this episode we learn that it is our heart that ultimately will determines our actions and responses. So we are challenged to let God change our hearts to be like God’s heart!

In this episode we learn that the greatest command is to Love God with all of our selves (even the parts we aren’t super proud of) and find that allow ourselves to be loved by God we become the truest version of ourselves!

In this episode, we see that our own delusions of grandeur often hinder us from God’s love.

In this episode, we learn that it is a dangerous thing to construct a God in our own image, even when we associate that image with our feelings.

In this episode, we continue in the story of Nicodemus and we realize that trusting God means receiving all of Life as a gift from God.

In this episode, we learn that our faith grows out of a trust in the unconditional love of God!

In this episode, we see the resurrected Jesus entering into the room where the disciples are gathered and ministering peace in the midst of the death of the empire!

In this meditation, we experience the “not yet” of living on Holy Saturday. We learn to wait in expectation for New Creation!

In this Good Friday reading, we examine the language of the psalms which tell the truth about the powers and principalities as they nail Jesus to the cross.

In this episode, we learn that we are freed to serve when we realize WHO WE ARE in Christ!

In this episode we see that the self giving love of Christ on the cross is drawing humanity toward him and away from the systems of this world!

In this episode, we see that In Christ we are given a whole new way of living with forgiveness and a fresh start at the very center of our existence.

In this episode we see that Jesus’ different way of living that prompted the peers that be to crucify him, and that his pattern of living was not just for Jesus but for us as well!