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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...

Joanna Brunson
May 1, 20233 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
May 1, 20233 min read
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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,...

Sue McAvoy
Mar 29, 20232 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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Remembering Marion Kaple
She appeared at first to be shy and unprepossessing, yet her powerfully intimate relationship with God shone through everything she did....

Maggie Winfrey
Feb 8, 20232 min read
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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...

Lerita Coleman Brown
Feb 3, 20232 min read
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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,...

Maggie Winfrey
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Dec 9, 20222 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Oct 30, 20222 min read
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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...

Bill Moon
Oct 30, 20227 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Oct 10, 20222 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Sep 6, 20223 min read
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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...

Mike Smoolca
Sep 6, 20224 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Aug 1, 20224 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Jul 5, 20223 min read
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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...

Bill Moon
May 26, 20222 min read
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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....

Maggie Winfrey
May 26, 20225 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Apr 29, 20223 min read
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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. "...

Maggie Winfrey
Apr 2, 20225 min read
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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...

Maggie Winfrey
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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