Contemplative Interbeing

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. Isabel Allende Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread A few times each year, we ask for the reciprocity of the gift...

Monday, September 15, 2025 The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread Life invites us into the optometrist’s chair of the soul, where lenses are placed before us and we are asked, again and again, “Is this clearer?” Some lenses distort. Authoritarianism narrows our...

Sunday, September 14, 2025 Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread The path of compassion often begins with acts of service—feeding the hungry, comforting the lonely, visiting those in need. These acts carry a quiet holiness, yet they awaken deeper questions....

Saturday, September 13, 2025 Prayer is sitting in silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful. Richard Rohr Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread Politics without contemplation becomes brittle, breaking under the weight of fear and domination. When we listen with the deeper mind of Spirit, we see how urgently...

Friday, September 12, 2025 Become a prayer-maker. Why? Because what you face in your life is bigger than you can handle. It is. Go to a place with shadows and privacy, and just start talking. There is some ancient Friend that wants to hear from you. Martin Shaw Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread Dove power is not the force of...

Thursday, September 11, 2025 The most precious inheritance parents can leave their children is their own happiness. Thich Nhat Hanh Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread The empire of Rome held the world in chains of violence and domination, yet into that same world Jesus entered as a humble presence of radical freedom. He embodied not...

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. Cesar Chavez Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread When we are tempted to compete for importance, the invitation is to turn instead toward those most easily...

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 History lives in and through our bodies right now, and in every moment. Resmaa Menakem Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread The scriptures reveal a striking paradox: those who seem weakest carry within them the indispensable gift of God’s life. Power is so often misunderstood, twisted into domination,...

Monday, September 8, 2025 It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. John O'Donohue Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread Power has often been feared, distorted, or wielded to harm, yet its essence remains holy and life-giving. To...