by Jeff Lindeman | Dec 24, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Jeff Lindeman (Coracle Sr. Dir. of Strategy and Operations) invites us to immerse ourselves in the well-known story from Luke 2 of the Angelic Host appearing to the shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. Through visual...
by Coracle | Nov 20, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
We are grateful to share with you a special collection of 14 “Space for God” devotionals to help you walk through this Advent season. Drawing together different practices and reflections from a diverse array of spiritual guides, we pray this collection...
by Coracle | Nov 16, 2023 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Susan Ward guides us into the different facets of gratitude we encounter in scripture and in life. She introduces us to practices that won’t just help us feel grateful but will help us become grateful people. She helps us...
by Danny Nasry | Dec 14, 2021 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
“Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.” –Simone Weil I’ve been sitting with the above quotation in this Advent season. “Waiting patiently in expectation.” It’s so simple and accessible, and yet what could be more difficult...
by Coracle | Jun 10, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us through a reflective exercise by which we can grow better attuned to the balance of beauty and burden in our lives. Ultimately, she helps us to see how...
by Drew Masterson | Nov 16, 2020 | Coracle News
The challenge is to wait well. Over the past nine months, we have grown familiar with (and probably quite tired of) longing, hoping, and anticipating a promised restoration of life, peace, and community that remains on the unreachable horizon. As we relinquish...
by Coracle | Jul 15, 2020 | Contemplative Life
by Freddy Adams, 2018 Coracle Fellow Last month I set off for a 10-day cycling adventure. The first part I did with a friend through the Shenandoah Valley, and the other part I did solo down the Blue Ridge Parkway. I have had this approximate route on an unofficial...
by Coracle | May 11, 2020 | Contemplative Life
May 7th, 2020– Coracle Associate, Barbara Ryan offered a Digital Soundings Seminar on “Handling the Grief of COVID-19 and Other Interruptions: When Life Hurts.” Below, you can listen to or watch the recording of the Seminar and get access to a number of...
by Barbara Ryan | May 11, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Originally written circa 1988 Job 3:24-26 For my sighing comes as bread, and my groanings are poured out like water. For the thing I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes. “The thing I fear...
by Drew Masterson | Mar 13, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Over the last two weeks, my wife, Ginny, and I heeded the directives of medical professionals to “self-isolate” after returning from a trip to Northern Italy at the end of February. Thankfully, we have not exhibited any symptoms of COVID-19 and we will be re-entering...
by Bill Haley | Dec 5, 2019 | Church Unity, Liturgical Seasons
I love my parents, they did a great job with us four kids. They didn’t do it perfectly of course (what parent does?), but they loved us as best they knew how, and loved Jesus as best they knew how, and those two things cover a multitude of, well, things I’m sure they...
by Drew Masterson | Sep 24, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation
Robert Frost once defined poetry as a “way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.” Poetry emerged as the first form of literary writing in human history way back in the 3rd Millennium BCE, and indeed the vast majority of ancient literature comes down to...
by Bill Haley | Nov 20, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Creation
“O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!” Ps. 30.12 Of course we all go through challenging seasons, and seasons when we might feel a little depressed, or things aren’t turning out quite the way we thought or not at all the way we hoped or wanted. It’s too...
by Coracle | Dec 2, 2016 | Liturgical Seasons
Last time I offered some Transcendence. This time I want to offer Sheer Joy! These few things fill my heart with laughter or happiness or wonder or all of them at the same time. Enjoy them! The first is probably my favorite minute and twenty-two seconds on Youtube....
by Coracle | Jun 21, 2016 | Contemplative Life
By: Giovanna Meek June 20th, 2016 was the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere, when the sun’s zenith reached its northernmost point away from the equator. Throughout history, the astronomical events of that day have been cause for celebration across cultures...
