The Gentle Stirring of Love
The contemplative Christian classic The Cloud of Unknowing teaches, “Lift your heart up to the Lord with a gentle stirring of love, desiring him for his own sake and not for his gifts.”
Peace in the Midst of Grief
As I wrote this book, Sitting with God: A Journey to Your True Self through Centering Prayer, my father passed away. My first centering-prayer session after his death was very powerful. I will never forget it.
Freefall Into The Mystery
James Finley wrote, “Even now by faith we lose our footing and fall into a new, unending center in which we are upheld by God and not by the narrow base of our ego’s self-assertion.” The silence of centering prayer teaches me how to lose my footing—and be caught by God. It enables me to let go of my ego’s insistence that it is the center of the world.
When Faith Reveals Who You Are
When Jesus is presented as an either-or, good versus evil, in-or-out proposition, then the story of Jesus will remain little more than a weapon of the ego that desperately wants certainty, validation, and to be proven right, according to David Youngren. But what if...
