Right Where We Are
Do you need a few minutes to just be? To be present with yourself and with God? Are you looking to develop a rhythm of stillness and contemplation? Then join Sumer as she creates a space through the short readings of scripture, sometimes a story or two from her own life, where you can just be, held by Love, right where you are. May these ancient words be kind companions along your journey wherever you are.
Episodes
Dec 18, 2024
Dec 18, 2024
6 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s special Advent episode features the lyrics to the familiar Christmas song O Holy Night by Adolphe Adam. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
O Holy Night by Adolphe Adam
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Dec 11, 2024
Dec 11, 2024
4 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s special Advent episode features the lyrics to the familiar Christmas hymn Hark, The Herald Angels Sing. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
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Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
5 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s special Advent episode features the lyrics to the familiar Christmas hymn O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
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Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024
7 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features Jesus’ familiar passage on worry from Matthew 6:25-34. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
Matthew 6:25-34 from the Christian Standard Bible and the New Testament for Everyone
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Nov 13, 2024
Nov 13, 2024
6 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features The Wayfarer’s Prayer by Ann Voskamp. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
The Wayfarer’s Prayer by Ann Voskamp
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“God, give us the grace to
embrace the mysteries we
don’t understand,
the cruciform openness
to live a tender surrender,
into Your ways wiser and
kinder than ours,
and the deep shalom of
simply being
with You here,
right here,
with us. ”
-Ann Voskamp
Nov 6, 2024
Nov 6, 2024
4 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features the Bookmark Prayer of St. Theresa of Avila. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
The Bookmark Prayer of St. Theresa of Avila
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“Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing away.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
God alone suffices.”
- St. Theresa of Avila
Oct 30, 2024
Oct 30, 2024
6 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features the familiar Come to Me passage from the gospel of Matthew. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
Matthew 11:28 - 30 from the New American Standard Bible, The New Testament for Everyone and The Message
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Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
10 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features The Beatitudes from Matthew 5:1-12 in The Christian Standard Bible, The Passion Translation and The Message. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
Matthew 5:1-12 from The Christian Standard Bible, The Passion Translation, and The Message
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Oct 16, 2024
Oct 16, 2024
7 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features the prayer Prophets of Future Not Our Own by Ken Untener written in 1979. This work is more commonly known as The Oscar Romero Prayer. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
Prophets of a Future Not Our Own by Ken Untener
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Oct 9, 2024
Oct 9, 2024
7 min
Join Sumer as she creates a space for us to be present with ourselves and with God right where we are. Today’s episode features another prayer from Celtic prophet and Scottish clergyman George MacLeod. May these words be kind companions along your journey.
“ Almighty God…
Sun behind all suns,
soul within all souls…
Show to us in everything we touch and in everyone we meet
the continued assurance of thy presence round us,
lest ever we should think thee absent.
In all created things thou art there.
In every friend we have
the sunshine of thy presence is shown forth.
In every enemy that seems to cross our path,
thou art there within the cloud
to challenge us to love.
Show to us the glory in the grey.
Awake for us thy presence in the very storm
till all our joys are seen as thee
and all our trivial task emerge as priestly sacraments
in the universal temple of thy love.”
- George MacLeod
A prayer by George MacLeod from his book The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona Prayers
Sacred Earth Sacred Soul by John Phillip Newell
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Right Where We Are
Hi! I'm Sumer and this is my family: my husband, Jens, my son, Reece and daughter, Delaney. Oh, and our dog, Peyton. Two years ago our family left its church and we've been walking in the wilderness ever since. We've been surprised by the beauty and depth that has greeted us here. I’m not a professional podcaster or phycologist, Bible scholar or theologian. I’m just a person who loves to operate at a slower pace and is deeply committed to walking, albeit imperfectly, in the ways of healing and wholeness while being deeply formed by Love. Maybe we're not alone, maybe you're out here in the wilderness too. Wherever you are, we can be here together, finding our way, all the while being held by Love.