Misc. Archives
For about a year, I wrote week-daily posts based solely on what emerged from my time in the quiet each morning with God. There’s not much rhyme or reason to this collection of posts from the archive, but you might find them to be an affirming invitation to go deeper into your life with God.
(from oldest to newest)
- Sitting Quietly in Prayer
- What Is Your Concept of God?
- What Would You Say to God?
- How Do You Approach Jesus?
- How Does He Heal You?
- What Can He Give You?
- Taking Time for Stillness
- Are We Willing to Learn Silence?
- Jesus as the Good Shepherd
- Where Do You Talk With Jesus?
- How Is Your Life With God?
- Trusting God’s Presence in Future Moments
- How Are You Just Yourself?
- Do You See the Person or Their Actions?
- You Need Not Do Anything
- What Happens When Worry Disappears?
- Where Is Your Sacred Place?
- We Are the Chambered Nautilus
- We Are Not Defined by Guilt
- Taking Time to Be Still
- Cultivating a Quiet Heart
- What Is Your Perception of Jesus?
- God Adores You
- How We Are Like the Trees
- Sitting on a Bench With Jesus
- What Is Your Intimate Prayer?
- What Are Your Sources of Wisdom These Days?
- Where Are the Pieces of Light?
- You Are Loved and Held
- Take Time to Breathe
- Who Are You Becoming?
- How Do You Experience God’s Love?
- Be Honest
- He Wants to Know You
- A Place to Rest
- Consider the Flowers
- Imagine Jesus With You
- Jesus Is the Salt
- What If You Had Encountered Jesus Back Then?
- He Will Meet You Where You Are
- He Will Lead You Beside Still Waters
- Trust in the Messiah
- Formation Happens on Two Levels
- How Do the Two Levels of Formation Interact?
- Trusting God With Our Ego
- What Do You Believe About God?
- Where Does Your Belief About God Come From?
- He Is Passionate for You
- He Is Praying Over You
- It’s Just Jesus
- How Do You Receive Love?
- What Jesus Is Here to Offer You
- Healing Is In His Hands
- Acknowledging Our Limits
- Oh, How He Loves Us
- More on Limits
- Will You Let Him Hold You?
- Do You Want to Meet Jesus?
- Are You Friends With Worry?
- God Is Greater Than Our Consciousness
- Negating the Superhuman: Drinking In the Present Moment
- Remembering That Grace Abounds
- What Are the Wounds?
- Introvert or Extrovert: How Do You Connect to God?
- It’s Love, Not Religion
- Where Has God Been Present to You?
- The Light Is Bright, but It’s Good
- All the Poor and Powerless
- What Are You Disciplined To?
- The Infinite Patience of God
- How Might You Cultivate Joy and Rest This Weekend?
- What Brings You Joy and Life?
- What Prayer of the Heart Looks Like
- He Completely Understands You
- You Needn’t Be Scared of Him
- The Experience of Silence
- The Role of Silence
- Becoming a God-Listener
- What Is It Like to Consider Going Home?
- Continued Thoughts on Personality and Silence
- Take Me As I Am
- Understanding Increases Through Largeness of Heart
- A (Small) Glimpse Into Formation
- On Being Tied to Others
- He Comes to Us Where We Are
- Letting the Truth Be the Truth
- Pulse Check: Your Relationship With God?
- Room to Be Yourself
- He Makes It Beautiful
- Living in the True Self
- How Do You Connect to God Right Where You Are?
- Oriented Toward Encounter, No Matter the Circumstance
- The True Self Is Un-Self-Conscious
- Our Role Is Simply to Say Yes
- Our Burden Really Is Light
- Pulse Check: What Is Bringing You Joy?
- How Grace and Truth Relate
- My Prayer for You Today
- What Does He Say to Our Shame? The Benefits of a Reverse Perspective
- Maybe, Just Maybe, He Wants to Hold Our Cares for Us
- With You in the Storms
- He Is Laughing With You
- Where Does Your Self Rest?
- Where Is the Strength of Your Life?
- What Is It About That Rest?
- The True Self as Particular and Universal
- The True Self, False Self, and Reality of Self
- We Form by Degrees
- It’s Nature and Nurture
- “Man Is More Manlike …”
- Choosing Grace Today
- “Blissfully Unaware”: A Valuable Spiritual Practice
- How Is He Leading You?
- Our Most Vulnerable Places, With Love
- What Has He Revealed to You?
- You Don’t Have to Clean Yourself Up First
- He Can Handle All Your Truth
- He Wants to Know You
- What Does It Mean for Him to Know You?
- This Is the Beginning, This is Prayer
- He Wants to Make You Whole
- He Will Sing Over You
- What Would You Say to Him?
- He Values You
- He Has All the Time in the World
- It Doesn’t Have to Look a Certain Way
- He Knows You
- This Is About Lifelong Growth
- What Are Your Moments of Stillness?
- On Inhabiting Ourselves
- Love Makes Us Still
- Just Being Held
- Having Fun With Jesus
- His Center Holds
- Jesus Is the Beatitudes, Maybe
- *Pinch, Pinch* Is This Really Happening?
- Meeting Jesus on the Beach
- Discerning Our Way to Trust
- Everything He Creates Is Beautiful
- Free and Made Alive
- How Does God Reveal Himself to You?
- What’s in Your Heart?
- Pulse Check: What Do You Need?
- This Is Spiritual Formation
- Pulse Check: How Have You Changed?
- On Not Being Alone
- Knowing Your Belovedness
- He Loves You
- The Path of Progress
- He Wants to Be Chosen by You
- This Is Good News
- It Requires Safety
- What Would It Be Like for You to Walk With Him?
- Getting to Know God
- Caring for the Body Through Indirection
- Indirection as a Daily Choice
- You Don’t Have to Fix Yourself
- What Is Your Simple Prayer?
- The True Self Is Radiant
- Looking Forward to the Year Ahead
- He Is a Haven
- He Is Abundant Life
- What Images Do You Have of Your Life With God?
- He Delights in You
- Finding God With and Within
- Finding Places of Rest
- When Do You Take a Breath?
- God as Your Resting Place
- What Is the Breathing Room of God for You?
- The Sound of Silence
- The Hymn Collective: “Give Me Jesus”
- The Honesty of Prayer
- Redemption Coming to Ground
- Enter a Moment of Silence
Some Special Posts
- A Prayer for Colorado
- A Meditation for Newtown
- A Meditation for Boston
- My Life Today, in Honor of Dallas Willard
- A Year of Being Faithful
- Announcement: An Indefinite Sabbatical
- On the Eve of a New Year
From Really, Really, Really Far Back in the Archives
- The Difference Between Charity and Social Justice
- The Root of Injustice: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
- Are We Called to Love Al-Qaeda?
- Lord, Why Did You Tell Me to Love?
- The Principle of Indirection
- Interiorities: “I Am With You”
- What Does the Fast Reveal?
- Beyond Belief: Love That Conquers Hate
- What About the Violent God of the Old Testament?
- Interiorities: “I Receive From You Who I Really Am”
- Interiorities: “I Am With You,” Part 2
- Eight Long Weeks: The Pepsi Fast
- What Is Contemplative Prayer?
- I Am Not I
- How Does the Beloved Learn to Die?
- Of Stars and Wildernesses
- The Charter for Compassion
- Dying Means Adoring Him Utterly
- Interiorities: “You Made Me Fall in Love With You”
- A Gift for President Obama
- Journey Toward Nonviolence: Getting Started
- Journey Toward Nonvioence 1: Encountering Our Fear of “The Other”
- Journey Toward Nonviolence 2: Learning the Limits of Our Love
- Journey Toward Nonviolence 3: Facing the Reality of Danger
- Life Update: A Video
- If Only They Knew How Amazing You Are
- Journey Toward Nonviolence 4: Sitting In Our Sin
- Word for the Year: Integrity
- Interiorities: “You’re Valuable”
- Interiorities: “Restore My Soul”
- Celebrating 31
- Noticing God in Everyday Life
- Time for a New Turn: Journey Toward Nonviolence