When Jesus walks through Walls: A Prayer Practice
What follows is a prayer practice of Ignatian Imaginative Contemplation, the goal of which is encountering the mystery of Jesus by walking into a story of the gospel with our senses fully awake. It’s...
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Your Emotion and God’s Limitless Compassion
The Presence Project is all about helping you find home-base in the heart of God. What do I mean by Home-base? St. Augustine put it this way, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in...
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Immanuel Journaling: an Invitation to Receiving the Comfort of God
Welcome to the Presence Project! The Presence Project is simple, repeatable tools. Ancient Christian contemplative practices. Modern brain science. This is episode 32, I’m your host, Summer Joy...
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Gratitude: From Duty to Delight
How Interactive Gratitude Changes Everything Through the roller coaster of the covid-19 year, I wanted to bring a practice to help us metabolize emotion in a simple journaling method WITH God....
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How to Rest in God this Advent
Join me for a 16 day Advent journey with devotionals and Handel’s Messiah. Yes, please. I’d like to join the Advent journey. Advent is on its way along with the busyness of the pre-Christmas season....
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The Lavishness of Your Shepherd’s Care
This Advent the world is grieving and tired. I hear so many people say they just want to lay down and binge watch Netflix until the world begins to right again. Moving toward the long dark nights of...
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Awkward Adventures in Trust
Polecat hot springs I almost said “no.” I almost stayed back at the campground tucked in a sleeping bag, with a headlamp tight across my forehead, book opened. I almost stayed warm and safe. Sometimes...
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Trust in the Slow Work of God: A Gentle Beginning to the New Year
So, before we burst into this new year armed with our color coded goal charts and shouldering the weight of a personal-reno project, let’s be gentle with ourselves. Let’s sit down on the seam of the...
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Joy and Resilience
Listen to the podcast below: https://thepresenceproject.libsyn.com/building-joy-and-resilience Transcript: Why is it that we so easily forget the tables God has set in the wilderness? Instead of...
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