I wrote this pray to help me name my fears and let go of them.

This prayer by Thomas Merton helps me accept that I don’t need to know what lies ahead, just Who’s leading.

Hopkins’ musical, exuberant, and quirky poetry thrills my soul.

Beauty also poses a risk. You could be disappointed—even betrayed.

Why do I hide? Why is exposure traumatic?

Start where you are, not where you should be.

For so many years I lived in fear and mistrust. David Benner helped me see more clearly why.

Since reading Mulholland on formation, I have been more searched out by God than ever, but I am also more in love with God than ever.

“Lectio Divina is a posture and a means of encounter with a text that enables the text to become a place of transforming encounter with God.”

May I never view my wife as my possession who exists to further my agenda.

Spiritual formation involves your whole being.

Spiritual formation will unsettle you.

This is a short attempt to enter into the experience of a person who encountered Christ.

The prayer of Compline gives us the language of lament and a nuanced interplay of grief, beauty, work, joy, and love.

Following Jesus will liberates us from man-made dogmas, and the hard yoke of our own laws.

“Sacred Companions” seek to discern together footprints or signposts of God’s presence in our embodied lives.

Spiritual formation is a journey, not a static possession.

Mulholland writes of being ever in process, ever relinquishing the drive to control my circumstances, people, and even God.