As people incorporate prayer and spiritual practice in their lives, some wonder what to do. As an example, I’m sharing some aspects of my practice – my morning routine and the way I incorporate meditation and spiritual reading. Perhaps it will help you to consider what would be helpful for… Read More »Building Your Spiritual Practice: Habits, Meditation, and Spiritual Reading
Each week for 13 years, I posted a blog entry for E-merging. Over that time, I took one three-month break. The blog had been very active in the past. At its height, there were about several hundred unique visits to the site each month. Presently, it’s rare for a posting… Read More »Writing this Blog and the Future
I just posted a new weekly video on my YouTube channel. It’s about finding the right spiritual direction. Check it out and subscribe to my channel for more videos!
One aspect of my spiritual practice is something called “spiritual reading.” It’s a contemplative practice of slowly reading an inspirational text and allowing it to speak to or captivate me in some way. When the pandemic began in Spring of 2020, I turned to The Revelations of Divine Love by… Read More »Spiritual Nourishment in a Pandemic
They say that those who don’t learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Yes, there are some things that people do which can be considered patterns that repeat generation after generation. But I’m not sure that knowing about the historic events prevents them from being repeated. In… Read More »Mindfulness, the Pandemic, and Getting Back to Business
I’ve been staying in regular contact with my close friends. We’ve been talking by phone more often. Our conversations repeat various themes. In addition to discussing the news of the COVID 19 pandemic, we share the range of emotional states we experience. It seems that we’re all cycling through fear,… Read More »Emotions and Living with the Pandemic
Governments and public health officials throughout the world encourage us to practice social distancing. Keeping space from others and limiting our social and work activities will slow the rate of infection for COVID 19. Social distancing will enable health care facilities to provide proper care for those requiring hospitalization, many… Read More »Our New Spiritual Practice: Social Distancing
It was a Monday morning. I had begun my shift at the hospital as the pager sounded. “Report to the ICU. There is a case for you.” That was 1981. I was a hospital chaplain then. I was called to provide pastoral support to the first person with AIDS I… Read More »Lesson from a Different Pandemic
