Kim Denyes

Connection Eclipses Suffering As a spiritual director, people share with me how they are suffering and have suffered.  Suffering seems like a promise of living fully.  In the book of…

Practice:  I Love You If you are unfamiliar with Dr. James Finley, you are in for such kindness around God and God’s love for you.   Dr. Finley’s words and teachings…

Practice:  I KNOW In a small group of believers, two women wept together as a third member shared a stunning insight around Jesus words to his students, when they asked…

Practice Release You may be able to quote Psalms 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.”  Robert Alter offers a wonderful translation of the first two words of…

Practice a Spiritual Practice Recently someone asked me, “What do you mean by spiritual practice?” Spiritual practice is a bit like practicing the piano, practicing hitting a baseball, or even…

Practice Steadfastness In the book of Psalms, the phrase “steadfast love” is used over 120 times.  What do you notice about the term steadfast love?  Where does it settle within…

Practice Detachment   God appears to value detachment from how “everyone else lives.”  A call to detach from non-life-giving ways, appears throughout the Biblical text.  God’s call over and over…

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