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In August of 2006, Wendy Avery returned to her Ohio home, feeling as if she was trying to jump back onto a spinning merry-go-round. For an entire year, her world had stopped, but everyone else’s kept spinning. How does one simply hop back on? How does one rejoin the dance when the music has been muted?
I rise before the sun this morning to the smell of coffee in the kitchen. Another day in Eden awaits.
On the brink of election season, it already feels like the tension in our country has reached a peak unparalleled in my lifetime.
When I first started going on contemplative retreats, I remember how difficult it was to give myself grace in my journey inward.
One of the core concepts that draws me to Christianity and inspires my spiritual walk today is its integration of both fullness and emptiness, a theme that is on full display during the Lenten season. We find fullness in the metaphor of baptism and emptiness in the proverbial wilderness.
Most movies pull the viewer in through chaos, madness, or emotion.
It can be agonizing to share what is deepest within you but then be met by apathy or rejection.
