Archive - The Contemplative Path

July 2025

Surrendering to Love: The Swiftest Path to Peace

Beyond striving, beyond stillness, beyond knowledge—there is a Love that asks only for your heart.

Jul 30 •

Life Is Beautiful: Finding Grace in the Midst of Suffering

What a Holocaust story, an unsung hero, and the cross teach us about finding beauty in brokenness.

Jul 27 •

The Divine Pause: How Silence Transforms Prayer and Presence

What happens when we stop talking and start listening to grace.

Jul 23 •

Between ER Hallways and Hallmark Movies: A Week of Raw Reality

What a week of uncertainty taught me about resilience and real self-care.

Jul 20 •

The Earth Is Not Ours to Consume

Hildegard of Bingen and the sacred work of co-creation

Jul 13 •

How a Simple Token Can Open Your Heart

On grace, humility, and the presence we easily miss

Jul 9 •

The Part of You Depression Can’t Touch

Thomas Merton recognized it, and so can you.

Jul 6 •

Exhausted—but on the Edge of Something

A reflection from no man’s land, where holy frustration meets quiet awakening

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Called by Name: An Ignatian Contemplation on Isaiah 49

When your strength feels wasted, but your light is still needed.

Jun 29 •

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