There are many compasses that are competing to guide our lives. How will you and I choose to make Love our compass today?  

While Scott is on vacation he is sharing meditations from the Living Compass app. Here is a guided meditation based on a quote by pastor and civil rights activist Howard Thurman. This meditation invites us to make the genuine our inner compass. The quote from Thurman is, "There is something in every one of us that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.".

You can find the content of the Living Compass app online at https://app.livingcompass.org

You download the app for your phone at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/living-compass/id6738334257

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.livingcompass&hl=en

While Scott is on vacation he is sharing meditations from the Living Compass app. Here is a beautiful meditation from Westina Matthews, a noted spiritual director, retreat leader, and author.

You may know the phrase "catch and release" as it applies to fishing. In this meditation, Westina expands on this phrase as it applies to one's spiritual life.  

*Westina Matthews, PhD is an author, a public speaker, spiritual director, professor, and workshop/retreat leader whose practice reflects contemplative living through “holy listening”. For the past twelve years, Westina taught contemplative spiritual direction at General Theological Seminary in the Center for Christian Spirituality. Through her thoughtful, poignant, humorous, and authentic writings, she has found a way to connect with audiences around the world.

 Her most recent books are Soul Food: Nourishing Essays on Contemplative Living and Leadership (2023); This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church (2021); and Dancing from the Inside Out: Grace-Filled Reflections on Growing Older (2019).

After living and writing in New York City for more than 30 years, she is now writing along the banks of the Wilmington River in Savannah, Georgia.

https://westinamatthews.com

You can find the content of the Living Compass app online at https://app.livingcompass.org

You download the app for your phone at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/living-compass/id6738334257

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.livingcompass&hl=en

While Scott is on vacation he is sharing meditations from the Living Compass app. Here is a beautiful meditation from Brother David Steindl-Rast.

Br. David Steindl-Rast, known around the world as “The Grandfather of Gratitude,” is a Benedictine monk and the pioneer of interfaith dialogue. He worked intimately with other great spiritual teachers like His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Thomas Keating. Gratefulness, he discovered, is the common thread in all religions. The author of more than a dozen books, including Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and You Are Here, Br. David has taught about the grateful life for more than 50 years. Learn more at www.grateful.org

You can find the content of the Living Compass app online at https://app.livingcompass.org

You download the app for your phone at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/living-compass/id6738334257

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.livingcompass&hl=en

This episode is based on a quote from contemplative author Thomas Merton: "Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness."  Scott shares two recent experiences he has had in nature that remind of how deeply interconnected our lives are with on another and with God.

One of the rituals we participate in when we attend a baseball game is singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Park." In this episode, Scott, an avid baseball fan (Milwaukee Brewers), reflects on the many meanings of "Root, root, root for the home team."  

Scott is an avid bike rider and in this episode he share the spiritual lessons he has learned from decades of riding a bike.  

And just a reminder, you can find the new Living Compass App at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/living-compass/id6738334257

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.livingcompass&hl=en

https://app.livingcompass.org

Unplugging is the first step to pausing to reset our compass. The next step is to prioritize plugging into choices that renew our spiritual and emotional well-being.  

Our new Living Compass App is one way to plug into renewing your spiritual and emotional well--being.  Find it at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/living-compass/id6738334257

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.livingcompass&hl=en

https://app.livingcompass.org

Celebrating our interdependence is just as important as celebrating our independence. We are all connected, all part of one body.  There is no "other,"--because we are all interconnected, all beloved one of our Creator.  

What if we thought of prayer not so much as trying to change others or to change what's happening in the world, but as changing us?