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?

The words from Colossians 3:12 provide the focus for this episode: “Holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.” The "clothes" we choose to wear each day have a profound effect on the spiritual and emotional well-being of ourselves and others.  

Scott talks about the joy his grandsons experience now that they can swim in the deep end of the pool.  He uses this as a metaphor for learning to enjoy the deeper dimensions of our emotional and spiritual lives.  

Scott talks about his son's recent graduation and the lessons he was reminded of about the power of community and how we are best able "to go far when we go together."

We are all familiar with the usual way the acronym ASAP is used.

What if we expanded our understanding of this and thought of it as any of the following:

As Slow As Possible

As Steady As Possible

As Siimple As Possible

As Still As Possible

As Soft As Possible

As Sincere As Possible

Allow Space And Pause

Scott shares a funny and meaningful story about a lesson he recently learned driving a 26 ft moving truck 1,000 miles.  

In Part 2 of Introducing the new Living Compass mobile app, Scott addresses the questiion, "What is Contemplative Psychology?" and explains how the new app is grounded in this approach to psychology.  

Download the app for Iphones at: 

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

Donwload the app for Google/Android phones at: 

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

Living Compass has launced a new mobile and web based app that focusees on the integration of contemplative spirituality and wellness.  

You can download the app on your Apple phone at:

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

You can download the app on youor Google/Android phone at: 

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

You can also access all the content in the app on your web browser at app.livingcompass.org

This Easter episode explores the image of the earth softening in springtime as a sign of resurrection.  Scott even sings this verse from one of his favorite Easter hymns:

When our hearts are saddened, grieving, or in pain, By Your touch You call us back to life again; Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been: Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

—John M. C. Crum

In this episode for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, we reflect on this well-known passage: "Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.

The episode concludes with a three-minute guided meditation on this passage.  

As we begin Holy Week, Scott reflects on how it is the actions and choices that Jesus makes this week that teach the most about walking the way of love.  The episode concludes with a three minute guided meditation.