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Yolanda Miller
- Nov 17
- 3 min
What To Do With 192 Hours (Give or Take) of Silence aka What Is a Silent Retreat Like?
As a self-professed, recovering people addict and extreme extrovert, if you had told me I would ever register for a silent retreat for...
Yolanda Miller
- Oct 28
- 2 min
Water, Water, Everywhere (But Here)
Pastor Steve Yamaguchi once shared a story about a fly fishing trip he experienced. He spent all day in his chest-high waders,...
Yolanda Miller
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
Spiritual EMDR?
I led a group this week where we were talking about the practices of gratitude and lament. As we listened to Psalm 22 being read, we...
Yolanda Miller
- May 24, 2022
- 3 min
Don’t Pooh-Pooh My Spiritual Discipline of (English) Haiku
*Originally posted on a Fuller Theological Seminary blog on August 24, 2017 I stumbled upon a new spiritual discipline this week. I was...
Yolanda Miller
- May 9, 2022
- 4 min
Learning to Listen: Examen Prayer
As I mentioned previously, the Examen Prayer (or as St. Ignatius called it, the Examination of Conscience) is one of two key spiritual...
Yolanda Miller
- Dec 16, 2021
- 6 min
There's a Pandemic in the Church and It's Not Covid
There is a soul sickness in the Church that stems from substituting knowledge about God for intimacy with God. It has led us to a new...
Yolanda Miller
- Dec 16, 2021
- 5 min
Learning to Listen: Lectio Divina
I have never been a disciplined person; I thrive on spontaneity and surprises. This means, as a lifelong church attender and Christian, I...
Yolanda Miller
- Dec 16, 2021
- 4 min
Hatching a Pandemic Plan
The idea of incubation has been…well, incubating, in my mind. It seems to me that we are in an incubation period of sorts. First, an...
Yolanda Miller
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Learning to Listen: The Basics, Part II
I grew up in a highly conservative faith tradition, where the church history I learned stretched all the way back to…gasp!…Lottie Moon in...
Yolanda Miller
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Learning To Listen: The Basics
At the heart of what I want to do is to help us learn two things: who God is and who we are. This means we will need to learn how to see...
Yolanda Miller
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Better or Bitter?
There was a Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist named Viktor Frankl who wrote a book called Man’s Search for Meaning. In it, he shared...