Heather Ruce

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, June 1st

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, May 25th Reading: “Centering prayer as a discipline is designed to withdraw our attention from the ordinary flow of our thoughts. We tend to identify ourselves with that flow. But there is a deeper part of ourselves. This prayer opens our awareness to the spiritual level of our being. This level might be compared to a great river on which our memories, images

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, May 18th with Tom Guided Meditation by Debbie de la Cuesta Let's begin by arriving…. I invite you to close your eyes, take a long slow breath- Sensing how it infuses you… and a slow, unhurried breath out. Find a pace that allows you to arrive- Opening, allowing, settling like falling snow just letting yourself come here. On your next exhale, Let yourself rest

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, May 11th with Tom Reading: Ours is not the work of seeking You here or there or where we think you might be, But of opening the heart's door. And when we do this, You cannot resist coming in, since our opening and Your entering are one: You knock and wait, and when we open we find that You were there all along and will not leave us. — Meister Eckhar

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, May 4th with Tom Reading: I remember one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the back of a tree just as a butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing to come out. I waited awhile, but it was too long appearing and I was impatient. I bent over it and breathed on it to warm it. I warmed it as quickly as I could and the miracle began to happen befo

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, April 27th with Faye Reading: I have come here to this planet to take in my life into my body and my being as deeply as possible. So I begin each day searching for a way within to reconnect to what is essential in me: the way I sense, the way I breathe. And in order to conduct that search, I begin by moving the whole of my being closer to the gre

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here* Monday, April 20th Chant: Born of above, born of below – a vessel of the Kingdom — Henry Schoenfield Tuesday, April 21st Chant: Born of above, born of below – a vessel of the Kingdom — Henry Schoenfield Wednesday, April 22th Reading: “Each one of us, and every action we make, has a quality of aliveness to it, a fragrance or vibrancy uniquely its own. If th

“By their fruit you will recognize them.” – Matthew 7:16 Dear Ones, We are now well into the season of Eastertide, a time in the liturgical year when Yeshua, having passed through death, appeared again and again to his students. He came reminding them of the arc of his life, consolidating his teachings, and encouraging them to carry the path forward. Through the lens of the Ray of Creation, Yeshua’s life, death, and resurrection reveal something essential about our own

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found here * Monday, April 6th Reading: “Everyone who begins to study and know their own states is well aware that our experience is a constant dying and rebirth. We must not be frightened as we come to see this, although it really is a terrifying thing that we have no power to keep hold of our own life; that it has to be renewed or given back to us by something that does not