If someone asked you, “How is it with your soul?”, what would you say?Would you give the honest answer? Or the efficient one?  Or perhaps the one that sounds spiritually acceptable?This question isn't asking whether you are busy, productive, or even successful--although I would imagine many of us interpret our own health of our souls through the lens of busyness and production of spiritual fruit.I...  Read More

Let's begin by asking the uncomfortable question: Do we actually trust God?Most of us would say yes, but if we looked at our calendars it might share a different answer.When we refuse to rest, we do more than exhaust ourselves. We quietly declare that everything depends on us. We fill every margin. We answer every notification. We chase every opportunity. And without meaning to, we turn accumulati...  Read More

You do not need to be spiritually advanced to begin a spiritual life. You don't need certainty. You don't need to hold the perfect belief. You don't even need to have a dramatic conversion story.You only need willingness.Intensity does not produce transformation. Repetition does. Event-driven spirituality often leads to greater disconnect and eventually burnout. We rely upon expectations. They sha...  Read More

To love well is to love fully, and that means being vulnerable.We are created to share life with others. Not superficially, or transactionally. But deeply, through trust, honesty, presence, and mutual care. As C.S. Lewis once observed, if you open your treat, it will be broken. There is no alternative. Love requires exposure. // Exposure requires risk.Showing up requires courage. // Courage requir...  Read More

If we listen to Christian's we've probably heard at some point someone saying that a parking space opening up next to the building was a sign of God's presence. Or we might hear of someone celebrating how God healed someone sick, a miracle performed before them (or maybe even for them).But the truth is for every miracle we see, there is another person who wasn't healed. Where was God in that story...  Read More

We are all created with the capacity to receive the love of God, and to share that love with others. In fact, Jesus makes this plainly clear to his disciples. All of the Bible boils down to the two greatest commandments:1) Love God with everything we are; and2) Love others AS we love ourselves. The thing about this: Jesus doesn't just preach this, he lives this out in its fullest. This makes it ra...  Read More

We want to find wholeness. We want to live full lives. So we work on ourselves to be physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Yet most of us were never taught how to be whole.We were taught how to perform, achieve, behave, believe in the right things. But rarely were we taught how to integrate our emotions, our bodies, our histories, our faith into a coherent, grounded self. We look at ea...  Read More

Beneath all the noise we are constantly surrounded by is a quieter hunger: a desire and need to be present, grounded, and whole. Embedded in the busyness of our spiritual striving is the gentle nudging of the Spirit to breathe, compassionate openness, and creative being. Contemplative living is learning to live and respond from a centered space rather than a scattered (and constantly reacting).  Read More