Pause+Pray

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 ...

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 ...