by Janice MacLean | Apr 1, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 118 Set Your Face Toward the Riot And on this path the gates are opening wide — Psalm 118 Read Psalm 118: 1,2 -19-29 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 25, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 130 Tending the Grief “My whole being waits for you, my God, listening for your Presence.” — Psalm 130:4 Read Psalm 130 What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as you pray this Psalm? When life is hard and you...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 18, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 23 Hospitality “Anoint my head, and fill my cup to overflowing.” – Psalm 23 Read Psalm 23 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 15, 2020 | Photos for Eye & Soul, Reflections
Pam Harrison, a friend of the Prayer Bench, is spending the winter in Olhos da Agua, Portugal. She wonders how she will live in an area of the world that is the hub of coronavirus. “As of yesterday things sure changed!! The news and social media are so scary but...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 13, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 95 Holding in Care “God holds in care the earth we walk upon, from its deep caverns, to mountain summits which meet the sky.” -Psalm 95 Read Psalm 95 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 3, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 121 Present to Life as it is. “I walk into your wakefulness… And in the shadows … you preserve me from its evils.” – Psalm 121 Read Psalm 121 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What...
by Janice MacLean | Feb 27, 2020 | Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 32 Speaking the Truth of the Heart. “How blessed are those who live before their God without the weight of guilt … I spoke …. Uncovering it all.” Ps. 32 Read Psalm 32 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call...
by Janice MacLean | Feb 12, 2020 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
Inside Prayer “Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and went up the mountain to pray.” I was fortunate to visit the place where, by tradition, this story may have taken place, Mount Tabor in Galilee. We didn’t walk up the mountain. We drove. As we wound our...
by Janice MacLean | Jan 29, 2020 | Email Retreats, Free Stuff, Reflections
January 2020 Email Retreat Here is your free retreat: (click on retreat title to download and print) How Then Shall We Live What best supports our journey of becoming? What contemplative practices help us live the life we want to be living? What are some ways we...
by Janice MacLean | Dec 17, 2019 | Reflections
Is this you? Seeking to deepen your life through spiritual practice rooted in Christian Wisdom? Yearning for invitations to solitude and silence, to see beauty all around, and to explore meaning and mystery? Willing to go beyond the ordinary, open to new learning, and...
