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Pause Readings & Reflections


First and Second Body.
We continue leaning into the mysteries and invitations of this Easter Time thin season in which we are working to, as Cynthia Bourgeault...
Apr 14, 20245 min read


Easter Time Continues.
Daily Contemplative Pauses Readings from last week Sunday, March 31st with Catherine Reading: "But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping....
Apr 7, 20245 min read


Easter Time.
Dear People of the way of Wisdom, A blessed Easter to you. We have made it alongside Yeshua through this sacred passageway at the heart...
Mar 31, 20247 min read


Entering Holy Week.
Dear Ones, We are entering Holy Week, the final week of this Lenten season, a time when we accompany and are accompanied by Yeshua as he...
Mar 24, 20246 min read


Keep up the work of Lent.
Dear Ones, There are two more weeks of the Lent. Our work throughout this season has been with prayer and fasting as a way of cultivating...
Mar 17, 20243 min read


Readings Week of March 4th.
There was no email sent out this week. . . Daily Contemplative Pauses Readings from last week Monday, March 4th with Joy Let it flow...
Mar 10, 20246 min read


Self-examination in a climate of welcome.
Last week we began exploring repentance with the intention of stabilizing a climate of welcome within. This week let us allow that same...
Mar 3, 20248 min read


Repentance with a climate of welcome.
I hope you have had some fun working with prayer and fasting in regards to stabilizing enjoyment. This week we will begin exploring...
Feb 25, 20246 min read


Fasting to Stabilize Enjoyment.
We are moving into the second week of the Lenten season of which so many people throughout history have observed the spiritual...
Feb 18, 20248 min read


Prayer as Cultivating Enjoyment.
This Wednesday ushers us into the season of Lent in the Christian Wisdom tradition which runs up to March 28th. The Lenten season is...
Feb 11, 20246 min read


Stewarding our hearts.
If you are on the Wisdom path it is because you have tuned into a spiritual awareness and you desire to live in such a way that your life...
Feb 4, 20247 min read


Readings week of January 22nd.
Daily Contemplative Pause Readings Monday, January 22nd with Heather “Centering Prayer is in [a] sense a totally "win/ win" situation....
Jan 28, 20245 min read


Epiphanytide Gardening.
Right now, within the Christian Wisdom tradition, we are in the midst of the season of Epiphanytide. This season began on January 7th and...
Jan 21, 20245 min read


Readings week of January 8th.
Daily Contemplative Pause Readings Monday, January 8th with Heather “There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed...
Jan 14, 20244 min read


Readings week of January 1st.
Daily Contemplative Pause Readings Monday, January 1st with Henry "Come, come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving....
Jan 7, 20244 min read


Invitation to Collective Advent Vigil Week III.
It is the start of the third week of the slow, tender, fecund season of Advent in the Christian tradition. Two weeks ago, I invited all...
Dec 17, 20235 min read


Invitation to Collective Advent Vigil Week II.
Today begins the second week of Advent in the Christian tradition, a season of quiet, slow, pregnant darkness. Last week, I invited all...
Dec 10, 20233 min read


Invitation to Collective Advent Vigil Week I.
This day is the first day of Advent in the Christian tradition. I invite you once again into a vigil over these next three weeks leading...
Dec 3, 20239 min read


Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil.
At the close of this Autumn Triduum, we return to Cynthia Bourgeault's words, "In the quiet, brown time of the year, these fall Triduum...
Nov 3, 20232 min read


Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil Day III: All Souls' Day.
It is the third day of the Autumn Triduum, November 2, All Souls' Day. Over the past two days we have stayed close to the invitation from...
Nov 2, 20234 min read


Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil Day II: All Saints' Day / All Hallow's.
Today we find ourselves in the middle of the the Autumn Triduum. November 1st, All Saints' Day or All Hallow's Day, has traditionally...
Nov 1, 20234 min read


Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil Day I: All Saints' Eve / Halloween.
It is the first day of the Autumn Triduum, October 31st, All Saints' Eve or Halloween. As we join with one another in vigil across this...
Oct 31, 20234 min read


Invitation to Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil.
It is autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere, a season bringing cooler nights, a changing of light, a crispness in the air, the falling...
Oct 30, 20232 min read


be gentle, patient and kind with ourselves and others.
As we continue to make space for the Wisdom rhythms that keep us connected to what the heart knows amidst life's many rhythms, we must be...
Sep 10, 20234 min read
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