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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Saturday

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...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Friday

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...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Thursday

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...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Wednesday

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...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Tuesday

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,...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Monday

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...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Sunday

Sunday, September 7, 2025 A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you. Eckhart Tolle 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 There are times when life teaches us in the most ordinary of places. A red light, a stretch of waiting, the hum of an impatient heart—all can become sanctuaries of presence. We...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Saturday

Saturday, September 6, 2025 Our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion. Bryan Stevenson 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 a holy intimacy...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Friday

Friday, September 5, 2025 In times of turmoil and danger, gratitude helps to steady and ground us. It brings us into presence, and our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world. Joanna Macy 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 wandering mind is not an enemy but a tender child, easily distracted, longing...
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