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Big Idea: The gospel of resurrection means that we have to understand our own lives in an entirely new way. We have to learn--and to dare--how to dance again in the new creation. Lives are lived and love is loved in the new dance of resurrection.

Big Idea: As we come to the last week of this Lent journey, we have experienced the blessings of turning away from the noise of the world in order to turn inward to hear that "still small voice" of God. What is God's calling to each of us and whose feet are we being called to wash? When we listen to God's voice we can find our life's purpose. When we let go of our own expectations and surrender to the Jesus way, our life's purpose will become clear.

Big Idea: We often have a "cast of characters" living inside our heads. "They" carry on endless conversations - each from their own perspective, comparing the self with others. The chatter can keep us from a deeper listening. It is difficult to understand our mystical connections to God when our minds are full of chatter. Knowing your true self as the person God loves will help you dismiss the false selves that chatter in fear, pessimism, and accusation, and who bully us into negative action.

Big Idea: Prayer as a spiritual practice may come easily for you or it may not. Even the most devout have doubts about prayer's power at times. What is it? How does it work? The mechanics of what happens in prayer is not as important as doing it. Because whether or not the outcome for ourselves or others is the healing we envision, the very act of being in a relationship with God and with others through prayer has healing and power-bestowing benefits.

Big Idea: As we have been practicing in our worship, Lectio Divina ("divine reading") is an ancient tradition of mixing the reading of scripture with prayer and meditation. Rather than an analytical approach to the words of scripture, it is a way for the words to simply be present and live in us. What will we hear when we let go of what it all is "supposed to" mean and simply let it reside in us?

Big Idea: The early church believed that breath and Spirit were one in the same. The word "spirit" and "breath" are the same in both the Hebrew and Greek languages. How might the meditative practice of paying attention to our breath be, in and of itself, a prayer of connection to God? When we embrace our bodies as the holy vessel of God, we become even more our true selves - which has been there all along.