Anyone in recovery from addiction and/or anyone helping others in recovery knows the importance of confession. In modern times this was popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and the 4th and 5th Steps: “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves,” and “Admitted to God, to…
Christians have struggled with balancing the mind and the body, the spiritual and the physical, ever since the early gnostic heresies of the early church. Viewing prayer as a holistic act of the human self, constituted as embodied soul or ensouled body, corrects such disconnections.…
Many people come to counseling with some level of doubt about the benefit of spiritual disciplines, or means of grace as they are called in my tradition. I think we can all relate to this on some level.
In part II in this series on prayer and meditation I mentioned the practice of combining slow awareness of breath with the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me”. It has become a regular and very rewarding practice for me…
We can always be certain of this: in the midst of all manner of uncertainty, Jesus desires for us to be close to him and find security in joining his radical, self-sacrificing love for others.
I will be continuing a series of posts about prayer, meditation, and mindfulness, but felt like interrupting with a note of encouragement for those who are or have been discouraged in prayer. Do you ever feel like God is not answering your prayers? You ask,…