Candles and Rocks

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.

The candle shines light into our lives and into our world.  Where do you need light to shine? Where do you need to let your own light shine out?

Consider these questions also:

What do you see?
Even in the black and white photo, 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.

Ruach’s Gift

Breath - Breathing
It is so intrinsic to my being
That I experience it with out much thought.

But breathing is not just something I do,
It becomes my very first encounter of You.
For You are the one who gave me breath.
Every moment I breath IS You God.

I breath your Ruach - Your Holy breath.
You send the wind so that I might feel your Ruach
And experience Your Holy breath with all my senses
        - Feel it on my skin
        - Smell it in the cool crispness
        - Taste it as it fills my nose and mouth
        - See it as trees sway
        - Hear it as leaves rustle

Breath - Ruach not only gives my body physical life
But also gives the very depth of my soul life.

Breath becomes my living connection to you my Living God.

Frost

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.

Frost is a sign of the promise of cold weather and winter. With winter comes hibernation and nature rests in promise of new growth to come in spring.  What is at rest in you? What promises are you seeking?

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.

God's Invitation to Rest

I dove deep into your presence God.
Deep into the glory of being so close to you.
So close that I hear and see you all around me,
feel you so intimately in every fiber of my being.

This awareness of you is Marvelous,
Glorious,
Soul expanding.
And yet it takes work to absorb all that I experience being so close to you.
My own awareness has broken open, expanded and challenged me.

It is here in this expansive awareness that I hear you say:
"Time to rest my child.
Time to quit opening to words and knowledge.
Time to give your filled up soul time to absorb all that you have come to know of me."

It is here that you give me permission to pause.
To come up for air.
Reassuring me, God, of your ever so close presence.

As I float along on the currents of your love and gift of rest,
I know you will be waiting for me when I am ready to dive deep once more
into our next journey together into awakening.

Autumn

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 does the tree letting go of it's leaves remind you of what you need to let go of?
Autumn can be a time of settling in preparing for the rest of winter, what is it that needs to settle in you and be given permission to rest?


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.

Awakening to Grace

Awaken me God.
Awaken my Soul.
Awaken me to all of the possibilities -
the possibilities you have for me to feel and know my belovedness.

As I begin to know my own belovedness help me also to truly know your grace that comes with it.

So that in my knowledge of your grace I may then extend that same grace to myself and to others.

As I begin to extend this grace may I also learn to see those around me as beloved, just as you do.

AMEN.

Door

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.

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.