Weekly Meditations

Advent Daily Devotional, Day 9

Mon, Dec 7 – DAY 9 Peace grows out of contemplative practices. Set apart time for stillness, centering, or movement as a form of meditation or focus. Sometimes this requires becoming motionless: holding a yoga pose, maintaining a prayer position, or observing utter silence. Sometimes it involves movement of the body such as walking or[…]

Sun, Dec 6: Peace (Advent Day 8)

WEEK of PEACE Sun, Dec 6 – DAY 8 Peace becomes the focus of this week. Peace has many dimensions. We cultivate an inner peace that is rooted in calm and self-awareness. It grows from contemplative practices, from giving time and attention to the spiritual, emotional, and psychological wellbeing of oneself plus caring for the[…]

Advent Daily Devotional: Day 7

Sat, Dec 5 – DAY 7 Lighting the candle requires multiple tools and actions. Hands to manipulate the match and candle. Fuel to ignite the spark. Oxygen to feed the flame. All these elements exemplify interconnection and dependency on each other in order to move from potential to reality.             Hope permits us to seek[…]

Advent Day 7: Daily Devotional

Lighting the candle requires multiple tools and actions. Hands to manipulate the match and candle. Fuel to ignite the spark. Oxygen to feed the flame. All these elements exemplify interconnection and dependency on each other in order to move from potential to reality. Hope permits us to seek connection and support. Hope suggests that we[…]

Advent Daily Devotional: Day 6

Fri, Dec 4 – DAY 6 Hope often involves learning from our experiences. Gaining insight from our past, the hard parts and the good ones, and putting them to use.             Hope is controlling the one thing we’re able to affect: our own response to whatever has already happened and what is happening now. How[…]

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