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#GlimsesOfGratitude: Cultivating a Gratitude Practice by Noticing What Shimmers
If there were a spiritual practice assigned to the month of November, it would undoubtedly be the practice of gratitude. With the Feasts of All Saints’ and All Souls’ and Thanksgiving (at least here...
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3 Ways to Make Your Own Labyrinth
image source This month in the Journey Book Club we’re reading about one of my favorite tools for the journey: the labyrinth. Labyrinths—maze-like formations with single, unhindered paths that lead to...
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What I Hope to Receive in 2016 (+ my word for the year)
Two days ago marks six months since it happened, which seems like a significant date to remember. Instead, the date on my mind as it draws ever nearer is March 5—the day my baby would be due. Just six...
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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E5: Ordinary Time
Now that the feast of Epiphany has come and gone, we slip back into Ordinary Time for a season in between two grand collections of seasons. Personally, I like to mark the entire period between the...
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Now Available! Wearable Prayer Beads in the Journey Shop
I’ve been hinting at it for a while now, especially on Instagram and Facebook, and today I’m excited to finally be releasing my first prayer beads collection! Prayer beads have been used as tools for...
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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E6: Ash Wednesday, Fasting, + the Season of...
Today is Ash Wednesday—the first day of the season of Lent. Many of us will begin this season with an Ash Wednesday service where we will receive ashes on our foreheads and be reminded that our time...
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Fasting from Doing: 9 Steps to Creating a Personal Retreat This Lent
We’re a week into the season of Lent, and last week on the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast we talked about the practice of fasting. In our conversation, we explored two different stories in Scripture...
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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E7: Lent + Prayer
While fasting is the most common spiritual practice associated with the season of Lent, it’s not the only one—prayer and almsgiving are common Lenten practices as well. This week on the Sacred...
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My Struggle with Centering Prayer and Why I Return
I don’t like centering prayer, which is to say that I struggle with it daily. I’m not a fan of struggle, of tension, of staying put amidst discomfort when the rambling voices within are doing their...
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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E8: Lent & Almsgiving + A Webinar!
It’s our final episode on the season of Lent and its three main practices, and today on the Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast we’re talking about the practice of almsgiving. Almsgiving isn’t a term we use...
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New! Prayer Beads Honoring the Sacred Feminine
Today I’m excited to introduce to you my latest set of wearable prayer beads honoring the Sacred Feminine, now available in the Journey Shop and just in time for Mother’s Day! Each set of wearable...
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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E11: Eastertide + Sabbath
For our final conversation during the season of Eastertide, Jenn and I sat down to explore one of my favorite spiritual practices: sabbath. Because we’ve focused on everyday practices or practices...
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How to Create a Brick Garden Labyrinth
I’ve envisioned having a labyrinth in our back garden ever since we bought our house nearly two years ago, and I’m excited to say that now we have one! Two months ago, some friends who had journeyed...
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Thin Places, Holy Spaces: Where Do You Encounter God?
This post first appeared in 2014. However, since I’m leading a pilgrimage to Iona next March (only 3 SPOTS LEFT!) and we’ve been dipping our toes into Celtic Spirituality, I thought it would be the...
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My Favorite Apps for Spiritual Practice
With our phones being the one thing we most often have on hand these days, it’s no surprise that there’s an app for everything, including tools to promote spiritual practice. I know, I know—I’m a...
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A Liturgy for Halloween?
It’s a rainy Halloween here in Seattle, and I have no plans of going out this evening. It’s likely that no trick-or-treaters have plans of stopping by, either—we live on an arterial route, and it...
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5 Ways Spiritual Practices Can Help You Vote
There’s no denying it: Everyone who’s anyone knows that we have a big election in the U.S. coming up. It’s also well-known that it’s been a rough and divisive election season—not just between...
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My Favorite Resources + Practices for Advent
Advent is finally here, and being the first season in the new liturgical year (after a lengthy Ordinary Time, I might add) it seems that many, like me, are eager to dive in. In my latest monthly...
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Comfy, Cozy Hygge: A Danish Pilgrimage Right at Home
If you’re an avid blog reader, it’s likely you’ve heard of the Danish tradition of hygge over the past year. Pronounced “hoo-gah” (its adjective is even better: hyggeligt, pronounced “hoo-gah-lee”),...
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Wisdom of the Body: An Interview with Christine Valters Paintner + a Giveaway!
Winter always makes me think about the body. Not in the play-all-day show-some-skin ways of summer, but in the gentle rhythms of rest and relaxation, hibernation and holy listening. Winter encourages...
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