Dovehouse Ministries

11/25/2025

My recent interview with Susan Cunningham!

Relationships Podcast · Updated Weekly · Authentic, inspiring conversations about what draws us to become more human and live more poetically. Therapist Susan Haroutunian Cunningham welcomes guests to bring a favorite poem into discussion ab…

10/20/2025

Prayer requires that we stand in God’s presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable,

proclaiming to ourselves and to others that
without God we can do nothing.

As disciples, we find not some, but all of our
strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God.

Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.

-Henri Nouwen

10/13/2025

The Interpretation of Ill Hap

The mystic finds truth, like Shelley, at the bottom of the well. The Hebridean plumbs the depth unfearingly. Hence his faith that in the heart of every experience lies a benediction, and that every ill hap opens a door to some larger good. Upon a certain May morning a blind woman sat delighting in the glory of it. At her feet a young girl who stared at dreams that rode mistily by. ‘And what, ‘ said the blind one, ‘is the likeness of the sea today?’ The girl answered, ‘Like a maiden vestured in pale-blue silk and it rippling softly in the wind.’ ‘Ah! The blessed wind,’ said the other, ‘clover and music in it the live-long day. The very breath of the dear God and a purpose in every gust of it. But, then,’ the brave voice went on, ‘there is a purpose in all things and whoso finds it wins strength to bear. I am blind but well content and my contentment is my use to God.’

Show me Thy purpose in my cross, so that, like Jesus, I may win strength to bear it.

Hebridean Altars
Rev. Alistair MacLean

10/10/2025

St Columba who brought Christianity to Scotland—Beginning at Iona.

07/24/2025

Iona! Truly one of the holy places.

02/03/2025

If the heart wanders or is distracted,
bring it back to the point quite gently
and replace it tenderly in its Master’s presence.

And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour
but bring your heart back
and place it again in our Lord’s presence,
though it went away every time you brought it back,
your hour would be very well employed.

Francis de Sales, S.J.

12/29/2024

He existed in the form of God,
yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his supreme prize.

Instead he emptied himself of his outward glory
by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant.

He became human!
He humbled himself and became vulnerable,
choosing to be revealed as a man and
was obedient.

Philippians 2: 6-

08/28/2023

"We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend,
servant to his master;
now asking some favor,
now acknowledging our faults,
and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel."

~ Ignatius of Loyola

08/24/2023

08/21/2023

Because you loved me, delighted in me, and have been loyal to my name,
I will greatly protect you.

I will answer your cry for help every time you pray, and you will feel my presence in your time of trouble,

I will deliver you and bring you honor.
Psalm 91: 14-16(TPT)

08/14/2023

You in your mercy have led forth the people whom you have redeemed;
You have guided then in your strength.

Exodus 15:13 NKJV)

08/08/2023

Sit Quietly in My Presence…

a leisurely pace accomplishes
more than hurried striving.

When you rush,
you forget who you are
and Whose you are.

Jesus Calling
Will you slow down and take the time to be reminded?

Read Psalm 139 over yourself.