Arise Blog
Guest feature
Welcome. A dear soul—and friend— Bekah Lusko shares a portion of her musical story and faith journey:
Hi! I’m a musician. For a long time, I never felt worthy enough to call myself that. If I’m honest, I didn’t feel worthy to be called a lot of things - wife, mother, Christian. I laid all of my accomplishments and works before me as evidence, compared them with others around me, and concluded that I just wasn’t good enough. I used that excuse to drop the ball in so many aspects of my life…
Brother John of Taize & Current podcasts
The conversation of metanoia: “involves the call to leave ones’ comfort zone to set out into the unknown in the company of Christ” and “involves learning a certain detachment”
Dwelling places
Hello Friends!
I thank you for joining me on this blog journey. I thought I’d share if you may be wondering why the name “dwelling places” keeps appearing and why the title of my reflections. It is in recognizing the patterns of my daily beginnings. Often I find myself waking and feeling like today’s hard. And asking, how am I going to get going, or get through it? Do you feel this struggle?
Women engaged. Ruth Barton’s “Sacred Rhythms.” Current podcast “Guided Prayer: broken identities” with Michelle M. Sharp.
I find myself midway through this engaging reading on rhythms and how to arrange “our lives for spiritual transformation.” The chapter on discernment practices “requires us to go beyond the basics”--to notice our inner dynamics where we hear desire and calling…