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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


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...
Joanna Brunson
May 1, 20233 min read


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,...
Joanna Brunson
Mar 29, 20232 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Feb 24, 20233 min read


Remembering Marion Kaple
She appeared at first to be shy and unprepossessing, yet her powerfully intimate relationship with God shone through everything she did....
Joanna Brunson
Feb 8, 20232 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Feb 3, 20232 min read


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,...
Joanna Brunson
Jan 11, 20232 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Dec 9, 20222 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Oct 30, 20222 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Oct 30, 20227 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Oct 10, 20222 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Sep 6, 20223 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Sep 6, 20224 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Aug 1, 20224 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Jul 5, 20223 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
May 26, 20222 min read


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....
Joanna Brunson
May 26, 20225 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Apr 29, 20223 min read


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. "...
Joanna Brunson
Apr 2, 20225 min read


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...
Joanna Brunson
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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