God In All Things

Forgiveness is a way that God seeks to lift the burdens from us that prevent us from the freedom to love and live fully. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

God's will for us is not some predetermined blueprint that negates our freedom. Let's examine how the Ignatian tradition understands discernment and purpose. Hint: There's a bigger Dream for the world. And Disney Pixar's Soul helps reminds us of this, too. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

An overview of five important contributions of the Ignatian spiritual tradition. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

We have put too much stock in human governments and institutions. The archetypal pattern found in scripture shows that human kingdoms always fail and God is always trying to draw us back to our original goodness. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Through his neighbourhood, Mister Rogers teaches us how to be people of love and how to truly know one another. His neighbourhood was kind of a metaphor for the kingdom of God. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Religion tends to operate from the perspective of how we need God, but the truth is, God needs us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Sometimes, in our efforts for self-improvement, we come against tendencies that are so engrained in our personality they are hard to change. Engaging in deep practices can help us better trust in the slow work of God. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

The pandemic has revealed the tension between our experiences of poverty and abundance. It's fitting to reflect on that this Advent season. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Gratitude is a cyclical force of creative love that feeds itself. It transforms us and opens our eyes to the divine goodness in all things. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Let's not lose our amazement and delight in the world we had so easily as children. Are you able to see the magic of God all around you? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

God in all things also means all things in God. Can we accept that we are a part of God, that we make God whole? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Our true selves are within us but sometimes we need a mirror to be held up before us so we can see it, and also see those false-self layers that need to be shed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Do you read the Gospel and Jesus' statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

The ego cares about our possessions, our status, and our group membership – all things that are passing. The spiritual life ought to lead us to put our stock in the lasting promise of God. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

When we pray using our imagination we might worry that the content of our prayer is not of God, but of our own makings. Here are a few ways you can discern the "voice" in your prayer. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Sometimes we fall into a one-sided relationship with God. We ask for, take, obey, and do what we can so God keeps loving us. That's not a relationship based on genuine love. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

We need to balance the inner work required to fight racism, transforming our own hearts, in addition to outer work like advocacy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

My wife Sarah reflects on the life-giving power of the breath. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those energy streams are intensified. When we’ve given of ourselves over and over and spent our energies in places longer than we ever would have imagined, we can quickly find our wells dry. I’m having to give even […] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message

Zoom fatigue, parenting fatigue, pandemic fatigue! Can we have courage to trust God in the midst of this rather than cling to false securities? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/god-in-all-things/message