articles: a collection of my musings
on transformational silence
Have you ever sat in silence and come away refreshed? Learning to savor silence is a discipline. One has to develop a taste for it. For most, it doesn't come easy. Try this...
on breath prayer
My journey in contemplative prayer started years ago when "breath prayer" helped me stay alive through a horrible health crisis in a remote area where I was alone and without...
on twirls and whirls
A friend wrote me about my book recently. "Your words, like your doodles, are intricate and full of twists and turns, looking this way and that, inside and out, up and down,...
selah – pause and reflect
The Hebrew word selah appears 70+ times in the Hebrew Bible. Three times in the book of Habakkuk, the rest of the time in the Psalms. The meaning of this word is uncertain - it...
on lectio divina
Lectio Divina (Latin for “divine reading”) is a simple but powerful method of praying with Scripture that engages with four disciplines - reading, meditation, prayer and...
on body posture and prayer
Why do we bow our heads or kneel when we pray? Why do we reach upwards with our arms or bring our palms together? Or reach out with both hands and open up our hands in a...
on thriving in the midst of pain
We tend to define miracles as God removing hardship or obstacles in our lives in supernatural ways—miraculous healing of the body, protection from danger, or the arrival of a...
on pain
We all wrestle with what CS Lewis calls "the problem of pain." Why would a loving God allow His children to be exposed to pain, loss and grief? In the very last chapter in the...
on demystifying contemplative prayer
Scripture clearly asserts the value of silence in our lives. “Be still and know that I am God.” But do we know what it means to really be perfectly still? Do we slow down enough?...
on learning to be still waters
I'm learning to be water. Stillness... When I was younger, that word sounded terribly boring to me—stagnant, lackluster, lacking imagination or initiative. I couldn't have been...
why doodling?
Why doodling? I wouldn't have known if I hadn't tried... Years ago, in an attempt to stay put in one place, focused on one task, I sat down with a clipboard, a piece of paper,...
pain hangovers and grace
hang·o·ver : A thing that has survived from the past. After 3 weeks of intense pain, the pain levels are finally reversing their trend and going down instead of up. I was...
on staying focused
It's one of those days. I'm sitting in a comfy chair, with my hot water bottle, planning my day around the pain. As anyone living with chronic pain issues knows well, It's always...
duco divina
I love to doodle! Doodling has become for me a tool for meditation. Lectio Divina (divine reading) is a traditional Benedictine practice of scripture reading that is...
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