Jonathan R. BaileyThe Yearly Check-in“If we were to uproot only one vice each year, we should soon become perfect.” — Thomas à KempisAug 5, 2018Aug 5, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyShort-Circuiting SurrenderSome will say, ‘I’ve not had an awakening experience, a Damascus-road like encounter, I’m not even sure I’ve had a casual meeting with God…Aug 5, 2018Aug 5, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyRepetition and Progression“The journey is both repetitious and progressive,” wrote William Butler Yeats, “we go both round and upward.” Our spiritual pilgrimage is a…Aug 5, 2018Aug 5, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileySurrenderJesus’ request split Simon and Andrew’s life in two: “Follow Me and I will make you become fishers of men.” Here was an opportunity to…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyWaking UpOver a lifetime we’re given opportunities to relinquish the life we’re living, moments that are especially poignant and pregnant with…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyAn Unrelenting FireSpiritual Formation begins and ends with love. If we don’t hear this repeatedly, then we’ll be tempted to twist the journey with Jesus into…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyCultivation to ConsummationHave we awakened to the Creator’s unyielding love, surrendered with a kind of desperate joy, given our lives over to it? “The wind of God…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyFurther Up, Further In“We are not converted only once in our lives,” wrote Thomas Merton, “but many times; and this endless series of small and large…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyinModern FaithWooing and WeaningAnne Lamott wrote that, “The secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are…and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this.”…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Jonathan R. BaileyDeepen or DerailHow we choose to respond to pain and suffering, in all it’s varying degrees, will inevitably do one of two things: deepen or derail our…Aug 1, 2018Aug 1, 2018