Anita Lustrea

This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 6.2.23 

1. So what do we say to the churches that spawn and nurture Christian Nationalism?

There’s a poignant moment in the “Fr. Elijah” novel when ‘goodness says to evil’ – “I would 1000 times rather have a persecuted Church than a compromised Church.” 

We should 

tell them that. 

Can I get an Amen?

2. I once heard a story. Whether it is true or not I can’t rightly say. But what I can attest to is that it rings true in all the places in me that need to hear this kind of testimony. 

‘After the minister of a church in the Jim Crow South retired, one of the elders was asked to become the next Pastor. He said yes to that call.

Now this church was filled with Bible believing people. They were all White. The new pastor made it a point to talk about God’s love for all people. He talked about the value of equality and told his congregation that God’s desire was to open the doors of the church to anyone no matter the color of their skin. He called for individual repentance for the sin of racism. 

He was told to stop preaching that message. He didn’t. All but four members of that church walked out and stayed out. The new pastor said to his  remnant flock  “Now our ministry can begin.” 

Tim Keller, in his book Prodigal God, wrote: “Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect…That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.” 

3. “Choose your leaders 

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward 

is to be controlled 

by all that the coward fears.

To be led by a fool 

is to be led 

by the opportunists 

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief 

is to offer up 

your most precious treasures 

to be stolen.

To be led by a liar 

is to ask 

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant 

is to sell yourself 

and those you love 

into slavery.”  ~  Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

4. “Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, to get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

5. Tom Hanks recently  received an honorary doctorate from Harvard  and spoke these words to the school’s graduates: 

“Every day, every year, and for every graduating class, there is a choice to be made. It’s the same option for all grown-ups who have to decide to be one of three types of Americans — those who embrace liberty and freedom for all, those who won’t, or those who are indifferent. Only the first do the work of creating a more perfect union, a nation indivisible. The others get in the way … In the never-ending battle you have all officially joined as of today, the difference is in how truly you believe, in how vociferously you promote, in how tightly you hold to the truth that is self-evident: that of course we are all created equally yet differently, and of course we are all in this together …” 

6. “…if prayer has become little more than worry with an Amen tacked on …Maybe we could try not using words …a spiritual practice may be needed that will allow your emptiness, rather than fight to fill it. The ancient practice of centering prayer is a …meditative technique …the quiet, gentle abdication of all one’s illusions of personal power and control. It is not measured by the quality or quantity of emotion it produces. Prayer doesn’t have to be measured by anything.” ~ Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

To be satisfied with quietly being in the presence of the Presence of God is the very essence of prayer. And if the need to use words arises that too is a good thing. But remember God already knows the deepest parts of our deepest longings. In the quiet, in the absence of words, the counsel of the Lord can be received.

7. The culture wars are real and I’m pretty sure a healthy percentage of those fighting it have little or no idea what they’re actually fighting about and why. In order to discover the ‘what and the why’ combatants would need to reject rumor and innuendo and do the really hard work of separating truth from fiction. That work needs to be done. I need to do it. You need to do it. They need to do it. If we don’t do it, the culture war will keep doing some pretty heavy damage to our country, our hearts, and our souls.

8. What’s our responsibility these days? 

James Baldwin once said: “We must tell the truth till we can no longer bear it.” 

And we must ask God to show us how to speak truth in such a way that is heard by those who want nothing to do with it. Wisdom must be sought and  great courage cultivated for we surely will be asked to walk towards situations and people that scare us a bit.

The lie we tell ourselves is that ‘rocking the boat’ helps no one, that keeping the peace is the ultimate virtue, and that neutrality is the ultimate good. If that’s true, why do we admire Jesus, Gandhi, Maya Angelou, Caesar Chavez, MLK JR, or Dorothy Day? Because each in their own way rocked the boat and became the change agent that was needed in their time and place. They lived and modeled truth telling. It ruffled feathers but it also changed history. 

9. Both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have indicated that they will vigorously pursue pardoning those who have been convicted of a crime for their role in the January 6 siege of the Capitol. Let that sink in.

I know what I saw that day and the Jan. 6 Commission showed us what was behind the curtain. None of it was pretty. 

10. The Catholic Archbishop, Oscar Romero, encouraged people to talk about and live into “the subversive witness of the Beatitudes.” 

Romero, by the way, was assassinated while saying Mass. Why? Because his commitment to the subversive witness of the Beatitudes threatened those in power.  

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 5.26.23 

1. This week the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida. This action is a direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’s aggressive and ongoing attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools. 

The travel notice states that “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.” 

I’m glad the NAACP did this. Other advocacy  organizations are taking similar action. They  see the need to stand up to the Florida Governor and legislature. Will it do any good? For those of us who are Floridians and are concerned about the political shenanigans going on in the state, it’s always good to know that we have allies.

What happens in Florida matters. After all DeSantis’s ultimate goal is to  “Make America Florida.” That my friends is a very, very bad idea. 

2. When we confess sin, we are saying in effect “I want to tell the truth about my life. This is what I’ve done.  I blame no one but myself. I want to be pardoned and healed. I need a savior.” 

I grew up in a religious tradition that helped me to view confession as a sacramental act, a sacred encounter with our own brokenness and an opportunity to once again receive the unmerited favor of God’s grace. Confession of sin is a restorative, interactive, healing encounter with the living God. I think involving another person to witness the confession can be a very good practice. 

3.  “Start considering that which troubles you, that which keeps you up at night, that which stirs you in the deepest kind of way. Use that to focus and allow it to become the fuel behind you becoming a force for good in the world.” ~ Kurt Vickman, Founder of Good Grocer, addressing graduates at St. John’s University, MN

This is good advice for all of us don’t you think? No matter our age we can slip into a rut if we’re not careful. I see it happen everyday. I watch people with potential and unfulfilled dreams make a decision to just kind of wander through life instead of living fully into it. 

4. It’s been said that preaching, at its core, is about “handing on to others the fruits of one’s own contemplation.”

And what is contemplation? It is the action of looking thoughtfully and prayerfully at something (scripture always beckons the preacher) for a long time.  The hope is, for the preacher, that something of benefit will stir in his/her heart and soul. And perhaps that something will be worthy of proclamation and people will actually listen and then trust the Spirit, who is always ready and able to move in someone’s life.

What I miss the most about not having opportunities to preach anymore is all of the above.

5.  “My home is in Christianity, but I have cottages everywhere!” ~ David Hayward

So do I. So should we all. Hunkering down with only those who agree with us isn’t a particularly good strategy. 

6.  “Everything in this life is going to be taken away from us, except one thing: God’s love, which can go into death with us and take us through it and into His arms.” -Tim Keller 

Keller, according to his friend and NY Times columnist David Brooks, was fond of saying “Cheer up! You’re a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine and you’re more loved than you ever dared hope.”

Tim Keller died last week. He was a passionate and erudite disciple of Jesus. His speaking and writing influenced thousands and thousands of people. He was definitely a difference maker. RIP.

7. I don’t dig deeply into end times theology. The “Left Behind” books and movies left me cold and occasionally someone asks me about them and when I’m not exuberantly positive they get miffed. 

Periodically, I do however, pick up an old friend, an apocalyptic novel entitled Fr. Elijah by Michael D. O’Brien. I think it’s my fourth time through it. It’s rich and weighty (at times overly so) but it always gets me thinking and praying about my place in a world that I discern is becoming increasingly unhinged and where we are getting a rather unpleasant  whiff of what the ‘spirit of antichrist’ smells like.

The novel captures well the stark differences between the fruits of the Spirit which are “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness and self-control” and the fruits of the shadowy, malignant, spirit of antichrist which produces anger, finger pointing, divisiveness, legalism, deceit and of course, pride. Yes, always pride.

8. Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one person is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another … There are just some kind of men and women who are  so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” ~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

We’ve all met people who are so heavenly minded that  they are of no earthly good. Most of us have probably have seen that person in the mirror more than once.

Richard Rohr reminds us that “Christianity is a lifestyle—a way of being in the world that is simple, nonviolent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an established religion (and all that goes with that) and avoided the lifestyle change itself. We could be warlike, greedy, racist, selfish, and vain throughout most of Christian history and still believe that Jesus is our personal Lord and Savior or continue, in good standing, to receive the sacraments. The world has no time for such silliness anymore. The suffering on earth is too great.” 

9. “Just as religious traditions are rooted in a set of beliefs, the phenomenon of violence flows from a belief in its power to save us. The  greatest religion on the planet is not Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Judaism but the pervasive faith in violence.” ~ Walter Wink, Methodist minister, Pacifist, Bible scholar. He passed in 2012.

10. I see no compelling reason for any state to try to mandate that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public schools nor do I understand why legislation is being considered to re-segregate schools.

Attempts by Christian Nationalists to foist their beliefs upon us are coming fast and furious. I still believe, as a practicing US citizen and a fervent follower of Jesus, in the separation of church and state and I strongly believe that any attempt to return to our racist past is sinful beyond measure. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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Kaitlin Curtice is back on the podcast. She is an award winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker. She is also an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, writing on the intersections of spirituality and identity and how that shifts throughout our lives. I think our conversation about her most recent book, Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day, is really interesting and enlightening.

Find Kaitlin in the following places:

• Website

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 5.19.23 

1. Rick Wilson, one of the founders of the Lincoln Project, notes that “When Trump’s CNN audience was giggling and clapping as he joked about sexual assault, and throughout his various racist tropes, it proved that Trump’s real superpower, with his base, is that he allows them to be their very worst selves without guilt or shame.” 

The base appears to believe that boundaries, civility, and truth telling matter not at all when they are in Trump’s presence. And even when he isn’t present they feel quite free to act like he acts and to say what he says. 

2. White Christian Nationalism has taken root in our country. Those buying into it think they are serving God. I believe they are effectively abandoning the cause of Christ. They think they’re right. I think I am.

That’s the impasse many of us find ourselves in. And it’s getting harder and harder to find common ground isn’t it? Discouragement comes easily. In the midst of my discouragement, God still reminds me that “life is indeed hard, that perhaps I should quit whining, and if I quit trying to figure out a way to find common ground I’m missing the point of it all.  

And then I push back and say to God: “I know, I know  but it’s really hard to reason with people who have abandoned reason.” The only response I get is, “Keep trying.”

3. “In the gospels,” Richard Rohr says, “you rarely see Jesus upset with sinners. Rather, what you see is Jesus upset with people who don’t think they are sinners.” ~ Richard Rohr

This is where the common ground lies. We are all sinners. Right? If we could only name it and claim it.

4. “The Way” is a lovely movie about pilgrimage, sorrow, finding one’s self, and the value of community, imperfect as it might be. It’s being rereleased. 

It was written and directed by Emilio Estevez and his father Martin Sheen is the lead character. The star of the show though, is the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and those who walk it and find ‘renewal’ upon it.

Anita and I watch this movie at least once a year and we both recommend it to those who come to us for spiritual direction. It certainly isn’t a formulaic religious movie. It is much deeper than that. It beckons the viewer to enter their own pilgrim journey where they can listen to the deep cries of their soul, where they can find healing for their memories, wrestle with and make peace with God, and find companions along “The Way.”

5. “Often, when I’d go in to see Thomas Merton for spiritual direction, he’d say, “How’s it going?” And I’d say, “I’m doing well!” And he’d say, “Don’t make much of it; it’ll get worse.” 

And other times I would go in really down about something. And he’d say, “Don’t make much of it; it’ll get better.” 

It ebbs and flows, it ebbs and flows. But what is the infinite love that unwaveringly permeates the wavering ways of our heart? And how can we reserve this inner core place within ourself that cannot be accessed by the finite because it belongs completely to God“ ~James Finley 

What is the infinite love that pieces you together? 

How do you access that inner core place that grounds you?

Worth pondering, right?  

6. “It takes a profound conversion to accept the belief that God is tender and loves us just as we are, not in spite of our sins and faults, but with them…

The compassion of Jesus reaches its zenith on the shores of the Sea of Tiberias. Only the risen Lord could sound the depths of Peter’s hurt, guilt, and self-hatred. Only Jesus fully understood that there was no treachery in Peter’s denial—just a temporary loss of nerve. Like a Marine in combat for the first time, the instinct for self-preservation had prevailed. Yet in spite of that betrayal, the purity of Peter’s heart and the quality of his love were not debatable or open to question in spite of his betrayal. 

Jesus had to rid the apostle of his limited self-perception, of the debased self-image of who he thought he was…

Jesus not only frees Peter from self-hatred by allowing him to publicly repudiate his triple denial, but in the subtlest act of affirmation conceivable he appoints him leader of his church and entrusts him to preach the Good News with supreme authority in the power of the Spirit.” ~ Brennan Manning

This gospel story is incredibly and beautifully poignant. 

7. I’m reminded  of a time in our country’s history when white Americans, declaring themselves to be ‘God fearing people’, would pack a picnic lunch on a Saturday and head towards the town’s lynching tree to watch Klansmen hang Black people. Some of the families would have  a photographer snap a picture of their whole family standing next to  the still hanging body. 

Then, they’d head home and lay out their clothes for church the next morning. During the Sunday service they’d pledge their allegiance to Jesus, who they betrayed the day before.

A week ago President Biden spoke to the graduating class at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C. In his speech  Biden singled out white supremacy “as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.” 

If you think history doesn’t repeat itself, think again. 

8. “The great turning point in your life comes not when you realize that you love God but when you realize and fully accept the fact that God loves you unconditionally.” ~ Anthony de Mello

Periodically, like two or three times a day, I need to be reminded of this. I bet some of you can resonate with that.

9. “I used to think that things were real, and change was something that happened to them over time. Now I think that change is real, and things are events that happen over time. Change is the constant and things come and go, appear and disappear.” ~ Brian McLaren, “Do I Stay Christian?”

I just read that car radios, in many new cars, will be unable to tune into AM stations. At first I was miffed.  After all, I grew up with AM radio as did many of you. But I don’t listen to AM much anymore and when I do – well there ‘s an app for that. Things indeed come and go. Change is constant. Inevitably, it forces all of us to adapt in one way, shape or form.  Some of us adapt reluctantly and do what we can to thwart the inevitable.  Others of us see change as a door opening to new possibilities.  

10. “Desert ascetics called this process of moving toward inner freedom – detachment. Detachment allows for greater direct experience of the Divine Presence as the seeker is attached to fewer distractions.” ~ Laura Swan

Perhaps those things we are most attached to need to be reconsidered. Do they breathe life into us or suck it right out of us?

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 5.12.23 

1. The biblical prophet, according to Richard Rohr, is always “on the edge of the inside.” That’s a great descriptor.

Look for the prophets. You know who they are. They’re the ones who tick you off but deep down you know that they’re speaking truth.

2. Ray Romano, of “Everybody Loves Raymond” fame was last week’s guest on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.” He shared a piece of advice he received from a therapist. “Ray, if you want your life to be better you need to start pretending you’re not a narcissist.”

3. “It is not “they” who are poor, sinful, and lost. It is ourselves. Unless we acknowledge that we are the sinners, the sick ones, and the lost sheep for whom Jesus came, we do not belong to the “blessed” who know that they are poor and inherit the Kingdom. Enough of our pseudo-messianic posturing! Let us be done with our futile attempts to appear righteous before God! …” ~ Brennan Manning

It’s about coming to grips with who we really are, not who we pretend to be. It’s tearing the mask off our lives. 

We all suffer with some form of self deceit don’t we? And if you think you don’t, then you are truly deceiving yourself. You’re certainly not deceiving any of us. Know yourself. Ask God for a healthy self-awareness that leads to transformation.

4. Last week, news broke of the firing of Professor Julie Moore of Taylor University (an evangelical college in Upland, Indiana). Her offense was teaching a course that included writing about themes of racial justice. A couple of months ago a teacher at Palm Beach Atlantic (another evangelical school) was fired for basically the same reason. There have been similar dust ups  at other schools and seminaries that we’ve heard about.

In the Taylor University firing a quote by Jemar Tisby was a bridge too far for administrators. It reads:

“The refusal to act in the midst of injustice is itself an act of injustice. Indifference to oppression perpetuates oppression. History and Scripture teach us that there can be no reconciliation without repentance. There can be no repentance without confession. And there can be no confession without truth.”

Hmmm. Not so frightful is it?

Tisby, by the way, is a committed follower of Jesus, has earned an MDiv, and is a PhD historian. I’ve met and interacted with him. Anita has interviewed him two or three times. We’ve read  and highly recommend his book “The Color of Compromise.” Our church, where he has spoken, has adopted many of his principles and ideas in our anti-Racism work. He’s the real deal.

It’s hard to imagine firing someone  because he/she asks students to read and interact with material authored by such an accomplished man. Could it be that a Black man with an informed opinion that asks questions of the status quo is just ‘too much’? The short answer is ‘Yes.’

But who’s fanning that flame? My educated guess is that it’s being fanned by the MAGA/Christian Nationalism movement which just loves flexing its muscles and creating a crisis where there is none. That’s their tried and true game plan. That movement  influences wide swaths of evangelicalism already so it comes as no surprise that evangelical colleges would be on their hit list. And it certainly doesn’t surprise me that issues of ‘race’ would be used as leverage. 

5.  “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” ~ James Baldwin

Obviously, he’s not talking about “The Art of the Deal.” He’s talking about real books that somehow manage to get to the primary issues of life. It’s about reading books that challenge our thinking, stir our hearts, and gnaw at our soul. Baldwin’s books do just that. He’s always worth reading. 

It shouldn’t shock any of us to learn that his work has been targeted by the ‘ban books’ movement. That should be incentive enough to read every word he wrote.

6. E.J. Carroll is a brave woman. It takes guts to look a powerful and vindictive man in the eyes and say “enough is enough.” 

Heather Cox Richardson noted that “…at the end of the trial, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan advised the jurors not to identify themselves—“not now and not for a long time”—out of concerns for their safety…Legal analyst Joyce White Vance added, “It’s a remarkable thing when jurors have to be cautioned that revealing their identities could put them at risk…when the defendant was the former president of the United States.”

7.  A few years ago, James Martin SJ was writing about this interchange in which Moses asks the Lord:

 “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God replies, “I AM WHO I AM.”

Martin was wondering whether or not God was saying that “he was the source and ground of all things or was God making some sort of philosophical statement?”

He needed help sorting it out so he sought out a fellow Jesuit, Richard Clifford, who was a renowned OT scholar teaching at Boston College.  

Fr. Clifford’s pithy response. “Maybe God is telling Moses that it’s none of your business.”

8.  “I am beginning to see that much of praying is grieving. This grief is so deep not just because the human sin is so great, but also – and more so – because the divine love is so boundless. To become like the Father whose only authority is compassion, I have to shed countless tears and so prepare my heart to receive anyone, whatever their journey has been, and forgive them from that heart.” ~ Henri Nouwen

9. Learning to be appropriately cautious, without becoming paranoid, is a much needed life skill these days as we are forced into playing the game I call  ‘Safe or Unsafe.”  

We’ll continue to play this game until we come back to our senses and quit believing that gun rights are more important than people and then take action to make that a legislative reality. Until that happens, we will all feel unsafe.

In the meantime, the gun lobby and their minions want you to know that if you or a loved one wander into unsafe territory and are shot – well, they’ve got your back (or what’s left of it). And they will lavish you with thoughts and prayers, some of which are from politicians who actually know they could help stop the carnage but remain unwilling to do so.

My hunch is that Jesus is saying to the gun lobby and the lawmakers they’ve bought  – “Enough with the thoughts and prayers. Do something.”

10. Last weekend, I watched not even one moment of Charles’s coronation and I completely ignored the eight hours of coverage of the two minute horse race in Kentucky. 

Maybe I am getting healthier. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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