JOSH NEWMASTERPractices for everyday life
Reflections and simple practices for remembering who you are, wherever your day finds you.
A moment to begin
Think of one place where you have been trying hard to prove yourself. What might you choose differently if your worth were already secure?
Notice. Reflect. Choose.
Notice
Recognize what your body is signaling and name what you feel.
Reflect
Question the story shaping your response and consider what the moment needs.
Choose
Pause, discern an appropriate response, and take one concrete step.
Lanterns of Love
Every chapter closes with a practice. Here is where the book begins.
Read an excerpt
The flame is not the lantern. The flame is the reason the lantern exists. Everything else, the metal, the glass, the hinge, and the handle, exists in service of the light. The lantern is a vessel through which the flame can be carried, allowing its light to reach beyond itself and illuminate the world around it.
The same is true of us. There is a flame in you, a light you did not create and do not have to earn. It is the love of God made present in you, taking on a particular expression through the person you are. Your life is not a journey toward finding this light somewhere outside of yourself or becoming worthy enough to possess it.
The flame is already there.
From the Introduction, "Why This Book"
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Reflections
Short writing on faith, awareness, and everyday love.
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