160: The Welcoming Prayer

This time of year encourages a new start, a letting go, a shaking loose of old skins and embracing a new kind of strength. Maybe growing and maturity means releasing. But what if part of releasing is allowing? What if shaking it off without first holding it out only means it will come back around again (and maybe not in very kind ways next time.)

What if letting go starts with letting in? That’s what The Welcoming Prayer from Father Thomas Keating is all about. Listen in.