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Finding God: A Monthly Practice
Welcome! We’ve come to the edge of a month’s passing and another’s beginning. I love the opportunity of these liminal, edge spaces to pause and notice my soul’s bearings and look for how God showed up in my life. In my monthly-ish email, I offered these questions to reflect on: Where did you experience light? …
Finding God in Uncertainty
There is a word in French that captures the visceral feeling of our communal and individual upheaval as we cope with the pandemic’s presence and other challenges: Bouleversant. It is a topsy-turvy word, one with motion and disorientation embedded in it. I find myself thinking of it often as I encounter the shifts in my …
Discerning Whether to Push on or Not
I lay on the itchy carpet, my knee swiveled across my body and my arms splayed out to either side like a fallen cornstalk. A deep breath found the sharpness of a clenched back muscle and I shivered into the pain. “Feel the feeling.” My right eye trickled, the salt trail hot, then cold as …
Is self-care for Christians?
I cringed involuntarily. The yellow font proclaimed “Soul care is the new self-care!” I follow and frequently hashtag posts on IG with #soulcare, and I did not want it equated with self-care. Chagrined, I realized I still have embedded deeply in my body a wariness, even a rejection, of self-care. I used to equate self-care …
Meeting God in our Tension
I’m betting that somewhere in your body you feel tension—we all do in some way. I notice mine when the ache is pinching, or it’s hammering into my thoughts. Historically, I didn’t notice it until it couldn’t be ignored. But over the years I’ve learned to scan my body more regularly. It started when I …
Hosting Your Spirit through Race, Faith and Identity Questions
As we finish observing Black History month, perhaps you want to keep doing the work of investigating how race has formed you and your faith. There are many important ways to do this, but I want to highlight the need for safe, hospitable relationships. As we attempt to become aware of and untangle the effects …
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Spiritual Direction and Discipling
As disciples of Christ, we desire to follow him in everything. At first glance, spiritual direction can seem less focused on reproducing Christ in me, and more on self-discovery or self-improvement. Let me put these fears to rest and show you how spiritual direction is a deeply helpful part of not only following Jesus, but …
Is Spiritual Direction Christian?
Is spiritual direction Christian? Those raised in American Christianity, and evangelicalism in particular, sometimes have a concern that it is “out there” or “woo-woo.” In this post I address these concerns, showing it as the deeply Christian practice that it is.
Why would spiritual direction be good for me?
Is God really with me? With us? What’s he doing? Lord, I want to know you more. These are words that might echo in you as you start 2021. After a year like 2020, many of us are digging in deeper to the questions of life, carrying loads that feel heavy and hoping for better. …