A Psalm of Divine Unfolding

When we are tired from an exhausting schedule, it is tempting to grab the low hanging fruit of distraction instead of demanding more from idle moments. The wisdom in Psalm 92 calls us to be rooted in an extended state of gratitude and reflection; allowing both our productive and passive moments to align with our highest intentions of spending our time in such a way that energizes our soul and connects to what matters most. It calls us to evaluate our time not by what you can get accomplished, but how your accomplishing, striving, and doing resonates with the potential of moments to align ourselves with joy, fulfillment, and restful contentment.

Aaron SchultzFebruary 12, 2024gratitude, thanksgiving, prayer, November, peace, practice, Prayer

A Practical Practice of Gratitude

Gratitude has a transformative and refining quality. It reframes moments, memory, experiences, and mindsets by cutting through to what matters most in life. Through a spirit of gratitude, we are forced to recognize the gravitational pull of God’s love and locate the evidence of how that love reveals itself in your life. Gratitude, then, is a practice of both being aware of the divine in your own life and allowing yourself to be transformed by it constantly.

Aaron SchultzDecember 11, 2023gratitude, thanksgiving, prayer, November, peace, practice, Prayer

Songs Without Words - a collection of music and reflections

In this series, Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words is paired with contemplative writings as daily meditations. Feel free to integrate these into your own practice of prayer.

Contemplative Practices, prayer, PoetryAaron SchultzMarch 25, 2020prayer, poem, spirituality, meditation, music, Mendelssohn

Periphery of Home

This Reflection and Guided Meditation engage with how our concept of “Home” has changed in the COVID-19 epidemic. We all are affected because we all are connected.

Contemplative Practices, Faith, prayer, PracticesAaron SchultzMarch 24, 2020meditation, reflection, prayer, COVID19, home

Prayer for Transfiguration Sunday 2020

This prayer is an inquiry into one of the mysteries at the heart of the Transfiguration; what is Jesus’ relationship to the Father, what is his relationship to the prophets Moses and Elijah, and what does this mean about our relationship with Jesus the Christ.

prayer, Worship, FaithAaron SchultzFebruary 24, 2020prayer, transfiguration, liturgy

Beatitudes

The Beatitudes in Matthew 5 reveal how backwards the goals of the Kingdom are from the world in which we inhabit. In this post I offer an exercise of using the litany structure of the Beatitudes to create a prayer for personal or communal use.

Liturgy, Practices, FaithAaron SchultzFebruary 11, 2020Beatitudes, Matthew 5, prayer, practice, liturgy, litany

Help Me Find You: a simple prayer of direction

We are created by Love, in Love, through Love, and for the sake of love. Our essence is good, beautiful, and holy because at our core we embody Divine Presence.

Heaven Is All Around You: a song for bedtime

Imagining this song being sung to a child, my goal was to musically and poetically communicate the heavenly Presence of God is in the faces and being of those who most purely embody the image of God for the child. For the child cannot conceive of the abstracted version of God we as adults so quickly cling; rather the child sees Love and God as synonymous energies at work in their lives. For where there is Love, there is God.

Hymns, FaithAaron SchultzApril 6, 2019hymns, music, prayer, family, evening song, compline, Divine Office, church, faith, God, children

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