A Prayer Walk

A Prayer Walk

We continue our journey of emphasizing a different spiritual discipline each week. This week’s focus is on a prayer walk.  Have you taken a prayer walk? Do you know what it is?  Here is an article providing a description. Please take time to read. Also, take...
Learning to Surrender: Maybe a Nap Can Help

Learning to Surrender: Maybe a Nap Can Help

This week’s spiritual discipline is “surrender.” Today’s blog is the chapter “A Nap,” from Chris Maxwell’s book, Pause for Moms. Remember the occasion? The child was tired. It was past nap time and his day had already been very busy. Games and laughter and more games...
As a Year Ends and a Year Begins

As a Year Ends and a Year Begins

Here is a short poem to read as we near 2019. For a collection of poems by Chris Maxwell, get a copy of his book, a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. begin now is the time. begin.  for the first time, begin. or, for the tenth time, begin again. with love and...
inside matters

inside matters

from the books of Unwrapping His Presence and slow God: 40 years of wonder.   the paper protected the present. it also presented the gift as something it wasn’t. colors, images. a cover, a mask. though lovely and friendly, the imagery lies about reality. paper,...