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Jonathan R. Bailey

Jonathan R. Bailey

The Yearly Check-in

“If we were to uproot only one vice each year, we should soon become perfect.” — Thomas à Kempis

Aug 5, 2018

The Yearly Check-in

Aug 5, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Short-Circuiting Surrender

Some 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, 2018

Short-Circuiting Surrender

Aug 5, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Repetition 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, 2018

Repetition and Progression

Aug 5, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Surrender

Jesus’ 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, 2018

Surrender

Aug 4, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Waking Up

Over a lifetime we’re given opportunities to relinquish the life we’re living, moments that are especially poignant and pregnant with…

Aug 4, 2018

Waking Up

Aug 4, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

An Unrelenting Fire

Spiritual 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, 2018

An Unrelenting Fire

Aug 4, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Cultivation to Consummation

Have 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, 2018

Cultivation to Consummation

Aug 4, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Further 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, 2018

Further Up, Further In

Aug 4, 2018

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Wooing and Weaning

Anne 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, 2018

Wooing and Weaning

Aug 4, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Deepen or Derail

How 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, 2018

Deepen or Derail

Aug 1, 2018

Jonathan R. Bailey

Jonathan R. Bailey

Writer and entrepreneur - serving at the intersection of Spiritual Formation and technology. Co-founder at Dwell + Board Chair at Renovaré. jonathanrbailey.com

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