Emerging

I invite you to pause for a moment and take some time for some contemplative play.

Start by letting this image fill your mind as you focus on your breath and letting yourself slow down into this time and this space.  Letting your breath and this picture be all that you attend to right now.

What is emerging in you?

Consider these questions also:

What do you see?
What colors stand out to you? Why?
What does your imagination do with this picture?
What words come to mind?
What favorite quotes from your favorite spiritual literature come to mind?


I invite you to join in conversation with me in the comments below what has come of your contemplative play time today.

Anxious Waiting

Loss of focus,
Netflix distractions,
Missed Obligations,
Is this what anxious waiting looks like?

Over planning the unknown,
Seeking control where one can,
Brain constantly on and whirring,
Is this what anxious waiting looks like?

God, I hate waiting!
Coping with the unknown is hard.
I know You are here with me
in this anxious waiting.
Still I just can't seem to
fully let go into
Your calm and unwavering presence.

To let go feels like
I am abdicating my ability
to do something.
And when life is going topsy turvey
I so need to do something.

God, help me to remember
that letting go into You
is doing the best something I can.

Help me remember and find
that peace that passes all understanding
in Your working presence.

Help me to truly know that You
are working in this for me, with me.
Wanting to make the waiting less anxious,
if only I would let go to You a bit more.

God, help me to wait with you.

AMEN.

Colorful Connectedness

I invite you to pause for a moment and take some time for some contemplative play.

Start by letting this image fill your mind as you focus on your breath and letting yourself slow down into this time and this space.  Letting your breath and this picture be all that you attend to right now.

How do the connections in your life give your life color? How might you color other's lives through connection?

Consider these questions also:

What do you see?
What colors stand out to you? Why?
What does your imagination do with this picture?
What words come to mind?
What favorite quotes from your favorite spiritual literature come to mind?


I invite you to join in conversation with me in the comments below what has come of your contemplative play time today.

Breath of Life

God You breath of life into me.
A divine kiss so precious in its expression
of my belovedness to You.

My borning cry was Your song of praise
for a new part of creation come.
A new part of Your image here on earth
to express belovedness to Your creation.

God help me to respond to this
beloved gift of life from You
in a way that carries forth
this gift of life to
all my path crosses.

God help me to see and hear clearly
how Your breath of life in me
calls me to be a full participant in
Your Kingdom work in all of Creation.

AMEN