Expectant Living in Advent
Check out the new resources available for Advent this season!
Advent & Christmas-tide Devotionals Prayer Life Seasonal Devotions
Category: The Pilgrim Life
The pilgrim life leads us to different places, intersects into the lives of others, can be transient and full of gains and losses. These detours are stories to be shared.
Prayer Life Spiritual Formation
Writing a Rule of Life
I want to share this new opportunity with you being offered by Global Trellis. I’ve written a 12-part series on writing a personal Rule of Life. Each week Global Trellis posts weekly devotionals to assist you in prayer and reflection on various aspects of life all leading up to creating your personal Rule of Life. To learn more about what a Rule of Life is, how to start the process, and get the necessary tools…
Ignatian Spirituality & Practices Spiritual Formation The Pilgrim Life
How Do You Define Success?
Where and how do you define success in your life?Take pause with this Ignatian Examen to notice if your value of success is from God or from your own working definition.
Spiritual Formation The Pilgrim Life
When Transformational Change Doesn’t Happen
Why is change so hard? Creatures of habit, creatures of comfort. We all know and resonate with those phrases. It’s comforting to predict the general outcome of our day. If we can anticipate an upcoming change and plan ahead so as not to upset the rhythm of our lives, then that means we have everything under control. Life is good, right? Practically speaking, habits make life easier, run smoothly, and give us that sense of…
Ignatian Spirituality & Practices Prayer Life Spiritual Formation
Noticing God in Your Story: An Ignatian Examen
Like Jesus, who went to the cross not for pain in itself but ‘for the joys that were set before him’, so we are to make this journey through the memories of pain and darkness, not to stay with these things but to redeem them and move beyond them. […] We, who build so many hells on earth, need to know that there is no place so dark, no situation so seemingly hopeless, that cannot…
