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The Gift of Patience: Waiting In God’s Presence (Lectio Divina)
Most of us know what it feels like to wait without knowing what we are waiting for — or how long it will last. Sabbath names that experience and reframes it: not as absence, but as the very place where God’s love is most fully given. This reflection moves through the great biblical figures…
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Don’t Wait To Pray: A Contemplative Reflection On Prayer And Time (Lectio Divina)
God created time for us — not because we are the center of the universe, but because he loves us and wants to be with us. And yet we keep waiting: for our schedules to free up, for conditions to feel right, for the resistance to pass. This Lectio Divina, drawn from James Finley’s…
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The Daily Rendezvous With God: On Freedom, Longing, and The Gift Already Given (Lectio Divina)
What does it mean to receive a gift you were created with? This Lectio Divina reflection, drawn from James Finley’s meditation on our creation as the beloved, explores the freedom God gave us — not as distance, but as the space in which the gift of infinite union can be freely received. Moving through…
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The True Self and the False Self: On Identity, Exile, and the Grace That Reveals Us (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on James Finley’s Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, this Lectio Divina explores the relationship between the true self and the false self — how the false self conceals the light of the true self, how Paul’s language of the old and new self illuminates that dynamic, and how it is grace, not effort, that…
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Our Life Is Our Prayer Life: On Spiritual Growth, Daily Chores, and the God We Meet in One Another (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Patrick Hart’s foreword to James Finley’s Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, this Lectio Divina explores how our truest spiritual growth is revealed not in our devotional practices but in our everyday relationships and ordinary circumstances. From Teresa of Avila’s pots and pans to Brother Lawrence’s practice of the presence, from Paul’s call to…
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An Open Invitation To God’s Banquet (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Richard Rohr’s image of Christianity as a wedding banquet rather than a judicial court, this Lectio Divina reflects on God’s original intention of inclusion — and on how it is we, not God, who exile ourselves from the table that has always been set for us.
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The Cry From The Cross: God Longs for Us as We Long for God (Lectio Divina)
A Lectio Divina reflection on the cry of desolation — drawing on James Finley’s insight that our longing for God is an echo of God’s infinite longing for us. Meditating on Christ’s cry from the cross as an act of divine solidarity, this post traces God’s pursuit of humanity through all of history and…
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The Ledges We Cling To And The Holy Longing That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
What do a drug addict’s first high, an alcoholic’s first drunk, and the soul’s restless searching have in common? They are all, in their own way, an answer to the call of holy longing — a longing that God placed in us before we knew we had it. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of…
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What the Flesh Cannot Hold: On Felt Absence and the Love That Remains (Lectio Divina)
When God feels absent, it is not because God has withdrawn — it is because the finite flesh cannot always bear the weight of infinite love. Drawing on the cry of dereliction, the agony in Gethsemane, and the Pauline vision of a life hidden in God, this Lectio Divina explores why felt separation is…
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The School of Divine Love: Consent, Centering Prayer, and Mary’s Humble Yes (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thomas Keating’s vision of prayer as a school of divine love, this Lectio Divina explores consent as the heart of the contemplative life — tracing Mary’s humble yes through the practice of centering prayer and into our own daily surrender to God’s quiet, knocking presence.