Pause+Pray

Reflect So much of our life is spent waiting. Sometimes the wait is mere inconvenience, like waiting in line or on hold. Sometime the wait feels existential, like waiting for the biopsy report or for our wayward child to find her path. What ...

Reflect How often do we spend time thinking about what is wrong with our lives and wishing things were different?  How much emotional and mental energy do we waste trying to change things that either aren’t changeable or aren’t even ...

Reflect So many times, a small cluster of words in the Psalms sparkles just right. Consider the rays of these lines from Psalm 17: “Let me see your face; when I awake, let me be filled with your presence” (15). ...

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 ...