Prayer Resources

If It Doesn’t Work, Don’t Use It

Don’t get caught up with one prayer method or another. Use what works for you and don’t use what doesn’t.

Lenten Practices

Lent is always a funny time. For some it becomes a kind of second-chance for new year's resolutions. For others it's a chance to give up sweets or set a goal to lose weight or exercise more. One of my friends is giving up Facebook, a popular Lenten practice. But what...

Three Spiritual Signals: Desires, Feelings, and Challenges

Each day our desires come face to face with challenges, and the mess of feelings in the middle doesn’t make the spiritual life any easier. Yet these three things are important to pay attention to.

In the Beginning, God Welcomed: A Biblical View of Hospitality

Hospitality is a sacred, transformative practice rooted in God’s own welcoming nature, echoing from creation to Christ, and inviting us to embody divine welcome in our daily lives.

Cura Personalis

How do we practically understand and live the Ignatian concept of ‘cura personalis’? This is a talk I recently gave for the Ignatian Spirituality Center of Seattle.

Magis

Magis is about freedom and restless desire for greater things.

Love – Week 10

Contemplation on the Love of God; God’s unceasing giving and gifting

Purple Rain: 4th Sunday of Lent

An audio meditation for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

Feelings and Emotions: Be Curious in Prayer

Ignatius tells us that feelings are important guides in the spiritual life. How do we discern what feelings are telling us? How do we know they are leading us to God? Be curious.

Slow Prayer

Into slow eating or slow travel? Try slow prayer.

Prayer is an invitation from God, inviting us into relationship with God. It gives us a chance to take part in the story of creation, have an effect on the world, be involved in its God-story, and most importantly, reflect on how we contribute. These resources hope to reveal the infinite facets of prayer, the many ways we reach God, and how God reaches into our lives: in love, with words, in silence, seeking our desires, at different times, in different places.