Sometimes the world is so overwhelming we don’t know exactly how to pray with words. The good news is words and an intellectual approach to God is not the only path. We can incorporate our bodies in prayer too. Explore using humming as a way to express your deepest needs, desires, losses and hopes to God. Let your body be the prayer.

What Lenten practices can show us about our appetites and deep hungers. When we fast from something as a spiritual practice, often we recognize a need or an ache we aren’t always aware of. It’s good to feel this ache as it can point us toward the goodness of God who satisfies.

For many women, especially in midlife, faith stops responding to effort. The old formulas no longer work. Not because God has left. Not because you are broken. But because something deeper is trying to emerge. Midlife is an invitation to take stock, examine, let go of what’s not working and open to a more expansive practice and way of being with God. Explore new (and ancient) spiritual practices that involve your mind, body and spirit.