In this episode Marcos Leon and a group of Faithwalkers share a time of meditation and learning about practices that will nurture your soul. This week they focused on the practice of the Examen. The video and slides are available below. To learn more about the Weekly Meditation Meetings, click here.

We are living in a time of heightened anxiety, and anxiety is contagious. Currently it is being transmitted rapidly through our churches, communities, nation and world regarding COVID-19. Because we are human, we are all having our own unique anxious responses to this major stressor. Too much anxiety can make us “stupid,” shutting down our ability to think or to function well. Our anxious responses impact us and the systems of which we are a part. Therefore it is important for our own well-being, and for the well-being of those systems, that we grow in awareness of our responses – of how we are showing up in our world.

We shouldn’t try to get rid of our own pain until we’ve learned what it has to teach. When we can hold our pain consciously and trustfully (and not project it elsewhere), we find ourselves in a very special liminal space. Here we are open to learning and breaking through to a much deeper level of faith and consciousness. – Richard Rohr

Faithwalking is about growing in trust that God really does want us to live our best life, that change is possible, and that knowing ourselves better will benefit us and those around us. – Michelle Newstead

Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight. – Brené Brown