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God Meets My Need

Q: Life can be really hard and it doesn’t seem like God is actually providing for my needs. What now?A: Dear reader, I (Brandon) resonate deeply with this experience! You are not alone! It reminds me of a scene in the television show “The Office,” where the lonely and hated HR director, Toby, musters up the courage to enter a church and talk to God. At first he approaches respectfully, but then he honestly blurts out, “Why you gotta always be so mean to me!?”

Brandon Booth

November 21, 2023

Nothing's according to plan

One thing I can say for sure, my life has not gone according to plan! Now, I admit, I’m not much of a planner. I’ve always had an allergy to making 5 year plans. Although that has more to do with my fear of failure than it does with any principled stance. But I have to say, it’s also because I’ve learned that no one can know what’s going to happen in the next 5 years!

Brandon Booth

November 7, 2023

Ignatian Spiritual Exercises with Niecy LoCricchio

Here's a wonderful blog from our dear friend, Niecy LoCricchio about her experience with the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises! Niecy is founder of The Soul Care Place; a spiritual director, Ignatian Exercises companion, and retreat creator. Enjoy :)

Niecy LoCricchio

August 15, 2023

Attending to God in the ordinary

What does it mean to attend to the presence of God? What exactly am I attending to? Oftentimes we'd like God's work in our life to be special and flashy. But God delights to work through ordinary means. We want to cultivate a growing trust that God is forming us through mundane means, every single day. What God asks of us is to be present and to live in reality.

Brandon Booth

June 29, 2023

Tidbits on praying as a whole human being

God made us as complex beings with bodies, minds, and spirits. He graciously invites our whole selves into relationship with him, but what does that really mean? Here are a few tidbits on bringing our body, mind, and spirit to God in prayer.

Peter Gammell

February 7, 2023

How to Pray the Lord's Prayer Contemplatively

How do we pray the Lord's prayer in a meaningful way? How do we contemplate Jesus's words instead of glossing over them? Enjoy this exerpt from Brandon's session on the Lord's Prayer during our Simply Pray One Day Retreat as he unpacks these questions.

Brandon Booth

January 24, 2023

Our Father

The Lord’s prayer is deeper than we often recognize. St. Cyprian wasn’t joking when he said that it is an entire “compendium of heavenly doctrine.”

Brandon Booth

January 17, 2023

God is available to you right now

Despite what we know to be true, our tendency is to feel that we must do something in order to gain access to God's presence. Advent invites us to consent to the truth that God is already present and he loves us.

Peter Gammell

December 6, 2022

Witness 👀

We’ve all heard that it’s important to be a witness, but it occurred to me that before we can tell someone what we’ve seen, we have to see it. Attention is the fundamental spiritual discipline. All the practices, all the skills—indeed prayer itself—begin with directing our attention to God.

Brandon Booth

October 25, 2022

Thinking In Reverse

In my recent podcast interview with Father Theodore, the abbot of an Orthodox monastery, he made an interesting—and to my mind, paradoxical—observation about how we need to “exercise” in our spiritual life just like in your physical life. Here’s what he said:

Brandon Booth

October 11, 2022

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