Can we “know God” through “unknowing”? Through what is called apophatic prayer? Many people over the centuries have attested to this way of “knowing.”

Years ago I saw a bowl of little cards at my massage therapist’s office, each with a word written on it in calligraphy and a whimsical illustration of an “angel” in a pose suggesting the word’s meaning.

Many years ago I learned a prayer practice involving the alphabet: Giving thanks for a condition, person, or thing—one per letter.

The key, no matter how we do it, is to not let the worries, the cares, the frightening “what-ifs” keep talking and talking. They will drag us down; God wants to lift us up.

Christmas came early for me this year….The shore birds were the Angels announcing His coming.

I love me some Advent! By the time this writing reaches distribution, we’ll be within a halo’s toss of the start of Advent.

Surely this “realization” is not just an “aha” moment, but much more. Somehow it is a making real, giving something substance and life, here and now.

Have you really looked around at your living space? In her e-newsletter this month, cookbook author Kris Carr challenges readers to re-imagine unused areas, get more creative, and become happy hermits in their homes.

Have you ever been at a sports event that was crucial, with either side about to win the championship? Perhaps some for either team are begging God for their side to win!