Joanna Brunson
A Open Letter From Joanna Brunson
"I knew that my Centering Prayer practice had the greatest effect on my life, and I wanted that for others. I still feel that way. I...
top of page
Maggie Winfrey
- May 1
- 3 min
Contemplative Outreach Atlanta’s Journey: These Past Five Years
"I continue to be amazed how Holy Spirit has actively worked with us during my term as coordinator." Beloved friends, I would like to...
11 views0 comments
Sue McAvoy
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Finding Peace
Come to Me. Still your mind. Mute your goals. Open your heart to Me within. Delve in deep, where I am, flowing love, creating you,...
21 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Swimming Lessons
The lesson that resonates most is this: What seemed impossible eventually became easy if I didn't panic but trusted in this Love. After...
14 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Feb 8
- 2 min
Remembering Marion Kaple
She appeared at first to be shy and unprepossessing, yet her powerfully intimate relationship with God shone through everything she did....
5 views0 comments
Lerita Coleman Brown
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Love Affair with Silence and Solitude
"The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic; Our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences, While something deep...
12 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Losing to Win
When I was six, I joined our swim team in the Panama Canal Zone because I wanted to win a trophy. In my first race a few weeks later,...
235 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
Where Is He?
“Come close to my side, you whose hearts are on the ground, you who are pushed down and worn out, and I will refresh you.” One day our...
13 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
Love Leads Us Home
Through our many struggles and challenges, perfect Love guides us home. “I’m not coming with you,” my dad told me when I came to pick him...
96 views0 comments
Bill Moon
- Oct 30, 2022
- 7 min
My Dreams with Samuel
...I could hear the distant thunder. I sensed a presence behind me, and then running alongside of me, a reddish-brown fox, sleek and...
66 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
Where Are We?
The closer we come to feeling lost, the clearer we can hear God’s “still small voice” that Elijah heard at his lowest point. “Where are...
63 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Diving Deep to Love
"At last I have found it…MY VOCATION IS LOVE!…I will be Love! " - St Therese of Lisieux Vacationing in my Panamanian birth-land with my...
34 views0 comments
Mike Smoolca
- Sep 6, 2022
- 4 min
What Exactly is Bio Spirituality Focusing Anyway?
Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people–in...
82 views2 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Aug 1, 2022
- 4 min
Where Do We Go from Here: Insights from Our Wisdom Panel With Merton and Keating’s Roadmap
Only the shaping of authentic true inner human identity can enable people to lift their heads above the catastrophic materialism and...
91 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Jul 5, 2022
- 3 min
Don't Run After Them
As they welcomed me to contemplate with them for long hours, I soon realized I had assumed wrong that I had to go to a special place to...
124 views1 comment
Bill Moon
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
Reflecting on Howard Zinn's "To Be Hopeful In Bad Times"
What we choose to emphasize in the complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do...
63 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- May 26, 2022
- 5 min
Wake Up! Snap Out of It!
When we join heart-to-heart to our divine spark on this unconscious level, we experience deep in our marrow a flow of unconditional love....
89 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
Reflection: To Live Without Care
"Centering Prayer reveals to us gifts right in front of us. We begin to see Jesus and the divine in the midst of ordinary things like...
80 views0 comments
Maggie Winfrey
- Apr 2, 2022
- 5 min
Reflection: Two Thomases Hermitage
"Contemplation brings the treasure of happiness in God that is available to us right here, right now, without our having to run away. "...
27 views1 comment
Maggie Winfrey
- Apr 2, 2022
- 3 min
Q&A on the Sacred Word
"Our sacred word does not carry a magic power to achieve enlightenment. We are just there with God in silence, not trying to receive...
9 views0 comments
bottom of page