We live in a world that can leave us feeling scattered. Our attention goes in one direction, our responsibilities in another, while our minds race ahead into the future or circle back into the past.

In this episode, I explore a different way of living: a life increasingly gathered around one Center. Drawing on Eugene Peterson’s reflections on the oneness of God, Joan Chittister’s description of the Benedictine practice of Statio, Bonaventure’s story of Brother Pacificus, and Paul’s vision in Ephesians of becoming a dwelling place for God, we’ll consider what it means to move from fragmentation toward presence and from restlessness toward the peace of Christ.

Perhaps an undivided life isn’t something we achieve through greater effort. Perhaps it is something God forms in us as we learn to be where we are, receive the grace of the present moment, and allow our scattered lives to be gathered into his life.

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