Scripps Sundays

 "There is healing and victory each time we notice our breathing, speak kindly to our body, or work to change a harmful pattern that was woven into our DNA long before we knew it was happening."  -Hilary McBride, The Wisdom of Your Body  May this year be an invitation into an even deeper experience of who you are, and may you encounter that experience as sacred, connected, and loved. 💗

  To Sit Quietly by Gunilla Norris ​ Inside me there is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up. To sit quietly and let it be, to breathe and let the air arrive, to rest in the moment and know that it is enough— This is the gentleness we are called to, a surrender that holds more power than any striving could.

" Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God, lacks nothing. God alone suffices. " -Teresa of Avila "I've been borrowing these words during this season, aware of some of the conflicting emotion that it brings up in me. Let nothing disturb you. Really? So much disturbs me. And in fact, I think being disturbed is an important reality. It's what motivates us to make a change, to advocate, to speak up, to use our voice. Being disturbed is not a sin or something to avoid. The survival of the marginalized depends on those in seats of power and influence being disturbed. So I've decided that this definition of being disturbed can't be what she meant. It must mean something different. And so in the saying of it, in the praying of it, I'm opening to what it might mean to let nothing disturb me. Maybe it means let nothing take you so far out of yourself that you...