prayer Archives | Healthy Spirituality https://healthyspirituality.org/category/prayer/ Nurturing a vibrant healthy spirituality Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Entering the Sanctuary of Holy Week https://healthyspirituality.org/entering-the-sanctuary-of-holy-week/ https://healthyspirituality.org/entering-the-sanctuary-of-holy-week/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8842 We enter the sanctuary, the sacredness of Holy Week. I take the step over the threshold into God’s story. Ahh, take that deep breath and pause in God’s wonder and love. My hubby and I have been traveling and have another quick trip coming soon. What a blessing but (why do those “buts” always stop […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/entering-the-sanctuary-of-holy-week/feed/ 2 Breath Prayers – a Lenten Practice https://healthyspirituality.org/breath-prayers-a-lenten-practice/ https://healthyspirituality.org/breath-prayers-a-lenten-practice/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8824 This season of Lent I have been intentionally slowing down and listening to God. The use of breath prayers has helped me in this practice. Breath prayers are short prayers said in one breath. Simple, repetitive and surprisingly ancient. The breath prayer generally involves quietly repeating a chosen phrase for several minutes, allowing the prayer […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/a-blessing/feed/ 1 Borrowed Prayers https://healthyspirituality.org/borrowed-prayers/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8699 We can talk with God in many ways. I find just plain conversation with the Trinity like friends having coffee or lifting praise and gratitude to be essential methods for me. Written prayers, working to find just the right words to articulate my desires, sorrows, hopes in my journals are prayers. Of course, silence is […]

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]]> A Traveler’s Thanks https://healthyspirituality.org/a-travelers-thanks/ https://healthyspirituality.org/a-travelers-thanks/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:40:35 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8464 Gracious Lord, Thank you for the joy of traveling. For the honor of seeing your creation. The joy of being alive in your world. Of experiencing the ocean breezes and the mist on my face. Standing on the deck losing count of all the variation of shades of blues in the waters before us. The […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/a-travelers-thanks/feed/ 8 Back to Basics – Prayer https://healthyspirituality.org/back-to-basics-prayer/ https://healthyspirituality.org/back-to-basics-prayer/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8150 Prayer – what more can I say? Prayer is an essential practice for all of us longing to follow Christ in our earthly journeys. Back to basics has been a series these last few weeks here on Healthy Spirituality as we ponder what best nourishes our soul and our relationship with God. What are primary […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/back-to-basics-prayer/feed/ 4 Advent Prayer https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-prayer/ https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-prayer/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7866 This Advent prayer was written by one of my Lamplighters, mentors, and guides – Henri Nouwen.  The words shape my morning prayers in this season.  May this prayer bless you too. Lord Jesus, Master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We who have so much […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-prayer/feed/ 11 Small Moves https://healthyspirituality.org/small-moves/ https://healthyspirituality.org/small-moves/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7834 “Small moves, Ellie” is a line spoken near the beginning and repeated towards the end of the movie, Contact.  I attended a retreat quite a while back where the speaker shared clips from this movie and then we discussed the spiritual implications. I have love Contact ever since then, watching it frequently. “Small moves, Ellie,” […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/small-moves/feed/ 8 The Ebb and Flow of Life https://healthyspirituality.org/the-ebb-and-flow-of-life%ef%bf%bc/ https://healthyspirituality.org/the-ebb-and-flow-of-life%ef%bf%bc/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7808 September invites me to pause, savor, and reflect on the ebb and flow of this past season. The joy of family and families gathering for celebrations. The tender moments of reconnection. The warm (perhaps too warm some days) sunshine on the back yard deck. My roses outdoing themselves in blossoms this year. But I reread […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/the-ebb-and-flow-of-life%ef%bf%bc/feed/ 8 Prayer of Abandonment https://healthyspirituality.org/prayer-of-abandonment%ef%bf%bc/ https://healthyspirituality.org/prayer-of-abandonment%ef%bf%bc/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7768 The prayer of abandonment by Charles de Foucauld has haunted me all year. The words keep appearing in readings. Its message scares me yet draws me into contemplation.  This prayer is calling to my soul. Can I really pray this prayer? Am I honest in saying thank you in response to God doing what he […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/prayer-of-abandonment%ef%bf%bc/feed/ 25 Collecting Prayers Using My Word of the Year https://healthyspirituality.org/collecting-prayers-using-my-word-of-the-year/ https://healthyspirituality.org/collecting-prayers-using-my-word-of-the-year/#comments Tue, 10 May 2022 14:04:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7714 All is my word of the year and I have watching for and collecting prayers containing this word.  Such a simple word – you would think I would have an endless list by now but alas, the list grows slowly. Slowly – that in itself is a good lesson. I tend to rush, skim, get […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/collecting-prayers-using-my-word-of-the-year/feed/ 16 Let Go or Let’s Go https://healthyspirituality.org/let-go-or-lets-go/ https://healthyspirituality.org/let-go-or-lets-go/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7472 “Go” is my word for 2021 and for such a short, simple word I have been amazed how it has weaved its meaning into my life this year.  For some earlier examples, you can reread these blog posts here and here. This past week “Go” tickled my imagination during my practice of breath prayer. A […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/let-go-or-lets-go/feed/ 22 11 Tips to Percolate in Prayer https://healthyspirituality.org/11-tips-to-percolate-in-prayer/ https://healthyspirituality.org/11-tips-to-percolate-in-prayer/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:02:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7457 Percolate means to spread or pass through. What a lovely way to think of prayer. To percolate our day, our time, our life in prayer. Percolate originates from Latin with “colo” meaning to worship, honor, inhabit, nurture, cultivate, filter, and purify. To allow ourselves to seep in and through prayer. I love that image and […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/11-tips-to-percolate-in-prayer/feed/ 8 11 Apps for Daily Prayer – Divine Technology https://healthyspirituality.org/11-apps-for-daily-prayer-divine-technology/ https://healthyspirituality.org/11-apps-for-daily-prayer-divine-technology/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:15:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7403 How do you start your day?  Me?  Coffee, walking, and prayer. All with the help of technology. My coffee is ready when I get up in the morning since I use the timer feature on the coffee maker. What a great way to wake up with the delightful smell of coffee in the air. I […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/11-apps-for-daily-prayer-divine-technology/feed/ 6 Half a Million, Oh My! https://healthyspirituality.org/half-a-million-oh-my/ https://healthyspirituality.org/half-a-million-oh-my/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7336 Half a million dead. This is the number fellow Americans who have died in the Covid pandemic.  In one year – 500,000 lives gone. This grim statistic stabbed my heart. I can’t even comprehend this staggering number of a half of million. I read this is more that the entire population of the city of […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/half-a-million-oh-my/feed/ 8 Keeping Christmas https://healthyspirituality.org/keeping-christmas/ https://healthyspirituality.org/keeping-christmas/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7270 Are you willing…To forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you?To ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world?To put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance and your changes to do a little […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/keeping-christmas/feed/ 9 How to Enter into Sacred Space https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-enter-into-sacred-space/ https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-enter-into-sacred-space/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=7037 How do you enter into sacred space? Barge right in? Loudly bang on the door, demanding your right to cross the threshold? Abruptly sit down, run down your list of prayers, then check this action off your to-do list? Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? Not very honorable of God. Yet lately I have become aware of […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-enter-into-sacred-space/feed/ 12 Breath Prayers – A Spiritual Practice https://healthyspirituality.org/breath-prayers-a-spiritual-practice/ https://healthyspirituality.org/breath-prayers-a-spiritual-practice/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:05:10 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6846 Hit the pause button! For just a minute in the midst of your hurry-scurry of reading blog posts, responding to emails and juggling your to-do list, stop.         Take a deep breath. Breath in – feeling the external air enter your lungs. Breath out – exhaling the internal. Air inward. Air outward. […]

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]]> https://healthyspirituality.org/breath-prayers-a-spiritual-practice/feed/ 8 10 Celtic Blessings of Wisdom https://healthyspirituality.org/10-celtic-blessings-of-wisdom/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:03:18 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6595 In honor of my upcoming pilgrimage to Ireland, I have been collecting Celtic blessings. Here are a few for you today: A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.  Anonymous ****** A wish that every day for you will be happy from the start and may you […]

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]]> Waiting in Prayer https://healthyspirituality.org/waiting-in-prayer/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:58:20 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=6556 Waiting for a prayer to be answered is hard. I have several prayers I have been hounding God about for years. I haven’t heard no. I haven’t seen the results I told him I wanted. I will be honest I have more than suggested something he may want to take care of. Now, please, Lord! […]

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