The Contemplative Stream

We may be the most connected and least quiet people who have ever lived. There's a screen in every pocket and a soundtrack over every silence, and somewhere along the way most of us lost the ability to be alone with God without reaching for something. It isn't that we stopped believing. It's that we never learned the way belief becomes intimacy.

"And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave."

— 1 KINGS 19:12–13

Richard Foster calls this the Contemplative Stream — the prayer-filled life. The slow, unhurried practice of loving attention to God. This Sunday Kari Guzman opens the stream that has kept the Church's roots in the water for two thousand years.