Pause+Pray

Reflect In Luke 1:45, we read that Jesus often stayed outside the towns in ‘deserted places.’ It’s easy to see God in a glorious sunset or a budding daffodil, but he also waits for us in the bleak, barren place ...

Reflect The jack pine is a paradox: it can be easily killed by wildfire, and yet that’s the only way its serotinous cones can release their seeds. So the jack pine needs fire to reproduce, yet fire can destroy it. When we ...

Reflect As I walked down a snowy street, a child emerged from the neighborhood school bus, and I began considering what I might say as we passed each other. Should I smile and joke about the single-digits cold, or perhaps ...

Reflect Made in the image of the Trinity, we’re created for communion with each other. But community is also fragile, and we’re living in a time when our social fabric is frayed and torn.  More than ever, we need to remember ...

Reflect “Lord, open my lips and my mouth will proclaim your praise.” I begin morning prayer with these words from Psalm 51. Recently I have consciously, silently, integrated them into my teaching. I hope to bring these words to life ...

Reflect There is such an abundance of poetic passages to carry in your heart, especially from the Gospel of John: Remain in me, as I remain in you (15:4). Reflect on the gift of the overlap of love, Jesus’ love ...