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19/06/2024

WednesdayWisdom from St. Mathew and Henri Nouwen. Our contemplative life grows deeper when we are surrounded by others in “A Spiritual Milieu”

For your meditation practice: a new book by RPW host Jean P. Kelly, Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications Illustrations by Connie Meyer. Link in bio to buy. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

15/06/2024

Exciting changes coming for Season 5. Otterbein University

14/06/2024

Meet Read. Pray. Write. host Jean Kelly for live podcast tapings with top spiritual influencers and discussions bout Spiritual Reading at the Wild Goose Festival July 11-14.

Get discount tickets here https://bit.ly/4bDEjy2 with code A-MIDGE, exclusive to RPW followers.

12/06/2024

Wisdom for Wednesday: Slow Down

From a new book by RPW host Jean P. Kelly, Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications Illustrations by Connie Meyer. Link for book purchase in bio. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

07/06/2024

Join RPW and the faith-filled flock: “There’s nothing like it.” Author

For tickets: : https://bit.ly/4bDEjy2 Use discount code A-MIDGE, exclusive to RPW followers: $50 off the price of an adult weekend ticket. See you there!

05/06/2024

“Serving” does not always mean helping. WednesdayWisdom to ponder in Spiritual Reading practice.

From a new book by RPW host Jean P. Kelly, Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications Illustrations by Connie Meyer. Link for book purchase in bio. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

29/05/2024

WednesdayWisdom: A text and illustration for your Spiritual Reading practice.

From a new book by host Jean P. Kelly, Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications Illustrations by Connie Meyer. Link for book purchase in bio. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

24/05/2024

Join the flock at the Goose!
RPW Host Jean Kelly will be both podcasting and speaking at Wild Goose Festival this July 11-14!

This one-of-a-kind gathering brings together activists, artists, and seekers from all walks of life to explore justice, art, spirituality, and community, converging in Union Grove, NC.

Get tickets https://bit.ly/4bDEjy2 using the discount code A-MIDGE, exclusive to RPW followers. You’ll get $50 off the price of an adult weekend ticket. See you there!

14/05/2024

New Episode: Meditation on how, when you’ve done enough, surrender is forgiveness, especially when addicted or unhealthy loved ones have not asked for your help. https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/05/13/surrender-a-prayer-of-acceptance-when-youve-done-enough/📚🙏🏻✍🏻

08/05/2024

WednesdayWisdom: A text and illustration for your Spiritual Reading practice.

From a new book by host Jean P. Kelly, Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications Illustrations by Connie Meyer. Link for book purchase in bio. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

01/05/2024

First in a series of texts for Spiritual Reading practice: WednesdayWisdom. Yes, even music lyrics can deepen our interior journey, when read using the 4 steps of lectio divina.

From a new book by host Jean P. Kelly, Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications Illustrations by Connie Meyer. Link for book purchase:. https://amzn.to/49QCa0r 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

21/04/2024

Listen: New episode meditation from Queering Contemplation, a new memoir by Cassidy Hall available in May from 📚🙏🏻✍🏻
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3JlMR0b
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21/04/2024

Listen to new episode, an excerpt from Queering Contemplation, a new memoir by Cassidy Hall available in May from Broadleaf Books 📚🙏🏻✍🏻
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3JlMR0b
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/.../queering.../20175009...
Broadleaf: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/.../Queering-Contemplation
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/.../queering.../1143642998...

18/04/2024

New Episode: When the companion we long for is inside us. A meditation offered by
author of new spiritual memoir, Rev. Cassidy Hall. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻 Listen now: https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/04/18/finding-self-in-the-inner-sanctuary/

United Church of Christ Encountering Silence





Cassidy Hall

17/04/2024

Meditations from three inspiring life journeys: now, tomorrow and next month. Follow to capture every moment of spiritual growth. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻 https://www.readpraywrite.com/ Julia Walsh FSPA
Cassidy Hall Jean Kelly

29/03/2024

Confession heals us. New (rebroadcast) episode offer meditation for final days of Lent. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

21/03/2024

Most excited about meeting and learning from amazing writers who I am reading now: Daniel Taylor Author Page Anthony Doerr Leslie Leyland Fields Tracy K Smith and more.

There is still time to register. Then come see me at the expo at the ACTA Publications table, introducing my new memoir!

16/03/2024

For St. Patrick’s feast day, Beannacht (blessings)! And a reflection on the deeper meaning of "blessing" from an Irish poet and writer who greatly influenced the soon-to-be-release lectio divina memoir, Less Helping Them, More Healing You by host Jean P. Kelly.

"[A blessing] touches that tender membrane where the human heart cries out to its divine ground," wrote John O’Donohue. "In the ecstasy and loneliness of one's life, there are certain times when blessing is nearer to us than any other person or thing. A blessing is not a sentiment or a question; it is a gracious invocation where the human heart pleads with the divine heart. There is nothing more intimate in life than the secret under-territory where it anchors."

John O'DonohueWild Atlantic Way
(Hear O'Donohue read his poem, Beannacht: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvS2LYbZLQ&hl=en)

15/03/2024

Listen to excerpt from the spiritual memoir of Sr. Julia Walsh, Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻 https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/03/11/have-no-desire-to-be-perfect/ Sr Julia Walsh FSPA Monkfish Book Publishing Company

12/03/2024

New Episode: Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life. An excerpt from the spiritual memoir of Sr. Julia Walsh, Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻 https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/03/11/have-no-desire-to-be-perfect/

07/02/2024

New Episode: Podcast host Jean Kelly shares how spiritual reading can heal. Link to book ordering and episode: https://actapublications.com/less-helping-them-more-healing-you-pb/
https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/02/04/finding-grace-to-practice-more-healing-less-helping/ 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

07/02/2024

New Episode: Podcast host Jean Kelly offers meditation about finding help with relationships through practice of spiritual reading, excerpted from her new book Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice. ACTA Publications 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

Listen here: https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/02/04/finding-grace-to-practice-more-healing-less-helping/
Order the book: https://actapublications.com/less-helping-them-more-healing-you-pb/

03/02/2024

And with a click of an email send button, this week I dispatched final edits of 30,000 of my best words about an ancient practice that leads to less helping, more healing. Now on way to the typesetter at ACTA Publications, with gratitude, and confidence thanks to support from folks like you! Should have my first book in hand by the end of this month, then into your hands!🙏🏻📚

01/02/2024

Order Less Helping Them, More Healing You; The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice for spiritual reading resources, and how to apply the practice in your life. https://actapublications.com/less-helping-them-more-healing-you-pb/

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16/01/2024

Author, podcaster, and speaker Mary DeMuth reads from her new book, Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting Your Wayward Adult Kids with Joy. The meditation reminds us that parenting is an excruciating exercise of letting go and remembering that children are never ours, but rather God’s. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻 Mary DeMuth https://www.readpraywrite.com/2024/01/15/love-pray-listen-then-let-prodigal-children-go/

16/01/2024

Author, podcaster, and speaker Mary DeMuth reads from her new book, Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting Your Wayward Adult Kids with Joy. The meditation reminds us that parenting is an excruciating exercise of letting go and remembering that children are never ours, but rather God’s. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻 Link in bio.

30/12/2023

Have any books that look like this? 🤣 (Awareness by Anthony deMello, suggested to me by a friend when I needed it most, along with Be Brave by Cheryl Strayed)

For , share a text/poem/art/music that has inspired you and why. Add as a comment (title & author), please.

Your contribution will become part of "Text Recs for Reading as Mediation in 2024" in the RPW January Newsletter. I'll give you credit, of course! (If you don't subscribe to the RPW Newsletter, please do! https://www.readpraywrite.com/contact/subscribe-to-rpw-newsletter/)

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18/12/2023

In Advent, we pause to listen to the Holy. A meditation by author Sarah Forti is our latest episode. See link in bio. 📚🙏🏻✍🏻

https://www.readpraywrite.com/2023/12/15/listening-for-the-holy-means-accepting-others-as-beloved/

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