Advent Love

God,

You came to earth so that
You and I might be one.

You came to earth so that
Your Kingdom would be
on earth as it is in heaven.

How patient You must be
to live here with us,
in the messes we have created.

O how much You must love us.

Thank you.

AMEN.

Stop, Wait, Watch, Breath

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.

Stop, Wait, Watch, Breath.   How do you need to practice these things this season?  Where in your life to you need to be intentional about practicing these things this Advent/Christmas season?

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.

Advent Welcome

Advent has come and with it an abundance of reflection on my part.  Join me this season as I share an extra post each Sunday of Advent.  It is my hope that these posts will help us all to slow down, refocus and re-member to the story of hope, peace, joy and love that comes in the story of Advent and Christmas.


It is so easy
in this season of busy,
to rush in
do this
plan that.

God help me to pause.
To start this season
slow,
silent,
listening.

Help me to remember to
invite you into my
doing,
planning,
being
of the season.

Help me to remember
to not only
prepare my plans,

But to first prepare
my heart.

Ready to focus on this
season of welcome,

Welcoming your Son
Christ Jesus
once again.

AMEN

Expression of Thanksgiving

God Your creation

shines the depth of
Your love for me.

It is your love
of my most imperfect self
that gives me pause
of deepest thanks.

My heart is filled
to overflowing with
the grace and mercy
You extend to me
Your child.

How do I express
my thankfulness in ways
that honor You?

May my extension of Your
Love, Grace, and Mercy
to all who I encounter
be an acceptable expression
 of my thanks.

AMEN

Bloom

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 opening up in you right now?  How do you need to bloom?

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.

Filled with Belovedness

Thank you God for loving me
as I am.

For helping my soul to know
my belovedness.

For infusing in me the knowledge
of Your Divine Love.

It is because of this knowledge
that I am able to be Your
hands and feet in the world.

It is Your love of me
and my knowledge of
my belovedness
that sustains me in the challenging days.

It is Your love of me
and my knowledge of
my belovedness
that sustains me when you
send me where I do not feel
I have the strength to go.

It is Your love of me
that says
I send you because you
know my belovedness and are ready
to share that here where it is needed most.

Fill me once again God with
Your belovedness of me,
for I poured it all out once again.

AMEN

Grow Creatively Where You Are Planted

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 can you grow right where you are? How might you need to look creatively to grow where you are?

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.