Inner Sanctuary Podcast

Inner Sanctuary Podcast

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Inner Sanctuary Podcast episodes

  • Becoming Empty
    Meister Eckhart wrote, “We sink eternally from letting go to letting go
    into God.” What could be a more beautiful practice for Lent?
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  • Healing with Loving Kindness
    All of us have places within us that need to be blessed and held and
    healed. Our spiritual journey walks us into these places with grace. Singer
    Audrey Assad calls us into Shiloh, a place where we can find tranquility
    and be made whole. In the song, she wrote:
    May loving kindness
    Calm the raging of the wound
    May your healing
    Be a clearing in the wood
    May you breathe in
    Deeper than you ever could before
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  • All Flame
    In our pilgrimage through Lent, perhaps we are coming closer to the essence
    of what and who is driving our spiritual journey. Rilke’s poem “Go to the
    Limits of Your Longing” expresses the voice of the Divine inviting our full
    participation:
    You, sent out beyond your recall
    Go to the limits of your longing.
    Embody me.
    Flare up like a flame
    and make big shadows I can move in.
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  • The Masks We Wear
    Thomas Merton wrote, “We have the choice of two identities: the external
    mask which seems to be real … and the hidden, inner person who seems to us
    to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he
    subsists.”
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  • Entering the Wilderness
    Entering the wilderness means stepping off the well-worn path and into
    unfamiliar territory. Author Alice Walker’s insights about inner change are
    well worth putting in our backpack: “Some periods of our growth are so
    confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may
    feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It
    would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who
    explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually
    becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before.”
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  • Start Close In
    As we begin the spiritual journey of Lent almost a year into the pandemic,
    we may feel a deep sense of inertia and want to sleep until spring and
    vaccines arrive. What if we did the exact opposite? What if we stepped into
    the journey bravely?
    Poet David Whyte wrote,
    Start close in,
    don’t take the second step
    or the third,
    start with the first
    thing
    close in,
    the step
    you don’t want to take.
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  • Practice Resurrection
    As we move through this long winter and ongoing pandemic conditions that
    keep us apart, perhaps we are noticing a force within us that wants to
    burst into life. And perhaps we’re noticing that the way we were living
    prior to the pandemic is not exactly what we have in mind. Poet Wendell
    Berry calls us to practice resurrection. “So, friends, every day do
    something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for
    nothing .... Practice resurrection.”
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  • The Trembling Pause
    Rainer Maria Rilke described our human experience as the trembling pause
    between two musical notes, our birth and our death. Contemplating
    impermanence brings out both trembling and beauty as we know our time is
    short and precious.
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  • Contemplative Wisdom of Bruce Cockburn
    Bruce Cockburn has poured out songs since 1970, and among them are many
    spiritual gems. His song Fascist Architecture is a potent description of
    the process of transformation from inner imprisonment to spiritual freedom.
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  • Sharing Mercy
    In her potent song Mercy Now, American folk singer Mary Gauthier captured
    the times we are living in and the ache we feel inside, especially when we
    see public and private sentiment turning away from compassion. The song is
    an invocation of mercy and grace.
    My church and my country could use a little mercy now
    As they sink into a poisoned pit
    That’s going to take forever to climb out
    They carry the weight of the faithful
    Who follow them down
    I love my church and country
    And they could use some mercy now
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Welcome to the Inner Sanctuary podcast, a weekly program for everyone who wants to deepen their practice of meditation. With Liz Rees at Knox United Church (Calgary).