Tag: Contemplative Practice

• portable silence: tethering to goodness

  

  “…silence is above all a quality of the heart that can stay with us even in our conversations with others. It is a portable cell that we carry with us wherever we go. From it we speak to those in need and to it we return after our words have borne fruit.”—The Way of the…

  Lindsay O’Connor

  December 17, 2025

  beauty, Contemplative Life, Contemplative Practices, Healing, nature, Poetry, Spiritual Practices

  beauty, contemplative Christian, Contemplative Life, Contemplative Practice, Healing, Joy, nature, nature poetry, Poetry, Spiritual Practices

• breath prayer for anxious souls

  Breath Prayer for Anxious Souls Inhale: O Holy One, come swiftly. Exhale: Return me to myself. Breath Prayer for Authenticity Inhale: Emmanuel, God with us, Exhale: Help me stay with myself.  God gave each of us the gift of a Self. During panic attacks, high anxiety or high emotion moments, or just regular old stress…

  Lindsay O’Connor

  August 6, 2021

  Anxiety, Belovedness, Blessing, Contemplative Life, People Pleasing, Prayer

  Anxiety, Belovedness, Breath Prayer, Contemplative Life, Contemplative Practice, People Pleasing, Prayer