SPOKEN SILENCE

One of my most vivid memories of being in a monastery is the first time I tried waking up. That first morning was rough. I was a college...

A while back I was reading and praying from my Common Prayer app. This app always includes an Old Testament reading and a New Testament...

Text from the Phos Hilaron as prayed by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Helena: "O gracious Light, pure brightness of the everliving...

"So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments and reclined at the table again, he said to them, 'Do you know what I have done...

I was blessed recently to write the meditation guide booklets for First Christian Church's Journey to the Cross Prayer Experience. I so...

For several years now I've watched episodes of Bob Ross' "The Joy of Painting" to go to sleep or to relax. When I've felt most depressed,...

The evenings are the worst. It seems the culmination of the day presses in on my heart and mind, and I can’t seem to shake that weight....

They say God is Love. Yet I don’t feel God in my life. So what does that say about the presence of Love in my life? So often I have...

“Come, Lord Jesus.” So often I pray this when all other words fail me. When the world seems dark and full of chaos, I find that these...