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Life has challenges. Without question, everyone experiences difficult moments where the light deep within seems to darken. Know God’s grace and love is ever present. Never give up! Let your light shine brightly! Bill explores the ever-present light of love deep within that offers hope, peace, lov...

This 4-4-4 mindful breathing exercise offers a mini-break from the stressors of life. This guided breathing exercise focuses on a yellow peony. The color yellow is often associated with happiness, joy, energy, optimism, and friendship. The peony flower symbolizes happiness, romance, beauty, and l...

Take action today – reach out, share love, invite people to be part of the great social movement that started over 2,000 years ago, a movement of compassion, empathy, healing, peace, and love to everyone. The time is now. Imagine a world filled with love – a love that fills people physically and ...

You flavor the world with goodness and honesty simply through your example of loving kindness. Become the salt of the earth here and now.
Historically, to be called the salt of the earth is a huge compliment – individually and/or for groups. It means you are honest, loyal, reliable, trustworthy, ...

Share Love? For sure! We have a choice. Penny explores the sacred reality of God’s profound love. Share love and be an instrument of God’s peace and love – or share violence and anger? It’s a choice here and now. Experience something new – experience profound love… the sacred reality of God’s lov...

Hope is here. Hope is now. Watch the Abound in Hope Spirit Snack Workout Video from DaRevsUSA. Contemplate and reflect on the words of hope from Romans 15:13 and imagery of an evening primrose flower from the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Experience 4-4-4 mindful breathing with imagery ...

Believe it! Join Penny and explore Jesus as the Good Shepherd - our Ultimate Concern, who knows us by name. Who is Jesus? Jesus is the Good Shepherd who knows us. Jesus knows us by name, by voice… he knows each of us intimately. He knows our struggles and joys. Jesus knows the flock and each of u...

Jesus is dead. His body is gone! At times gratefulness can be hard. Penny explores Mary’s gratefulness at the empty tomb of Jesus. …It was a dark morning. Jesus was dead. Mary visits the tomb and discovers it empty. Jesus’ body is gone! Who took it? Mary runs back to tell the other disciples. The...

Hope is here. Hope is now. Share hope. Watch Romans 15:13 Abound in Hope Word Now Spiritual Workout Video from DaRevsUSA. Experience 4-4-4 Mindful Breathing Exercises, Lectio Divina scriptural reflection, meditative scriptural imagery, and a prayerful 4-4-4 Mindful Breathing Exercise. Know that h...

Penny delves into courage to do it differently. Do we dare to be and do life differently? Penny suggests the church is more than a building. It is us and it is being reborn here and now in each of us. Pentecost Sunday is known as the birth of the church. It is the day in the church calendar where...

Penny examines inviting God to be present as we mix it up sharing simple gifts of peace and love. It’s about gratefulness - believing and sharing it forward. Discover God’s peace through sharing simple gifts with one another, such as sharing peace and love in unity together. Share the gifts God h...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as Love comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (using visual e...

Become immersed imagining possibilities and become the light of the world. Matthew 5:14 reminds us: “You are the light of the world.” Chartres-inspired, “walk” the Be the Light labyrinth created in virtual reality. Listen to Amazing Grace in the background (Musica Divina) and at each bend of the ...

Penny delves into life’s reality – it’s a choice… be bad or good. Each of us can do either. What would a Good Shepherd do? What does civility look like? What type of world do we wish to live in… to create… to leave to a future generation? Do we follow the model of the Good Shepherd or ??? Come – ...

Bill dives deep into renewal in this season of Eastertide. Why now? It’s Eastertide! Let’s explore… A new reality has begun – it is here. How do we live into this new time? What does it look like? Do we doubt like Doubting Thomas? Do we simply return to what we did in the past – or do we look bey...

Everyone needs to take a deep mindful breath. The 21st century demands hope and peace – not war and destruction. If we are to survive as a species, let us end the foolishness of war and demand civility grounded on hope and peace of all world leaders. If we are truly a civil humanity that loves an...

Do you see? Penny examines blindness as Jesus heals a man born blind with mud made from his spit. Imagine seeing the world for the first time by breaking the barriers of blindness. The local community questions what is happening – who did it – why? They knew the blind man as a beggar, not part of...

Take a break - breathe mindfully and watch as the forest floor of Glacier National Park near Lake McDonald comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience...

Bill looks at free will, the choices we make that become our destiny, the legacy we leave behind. What we do or don’t do has consequences. What impact do our actions have for our life and those around us – destroy or nurture? Today we look at the story of a barren fig tree, the gardener, and the ...

Everyone needs a little luck – hopefully today is your lucky day. Four leaf clovers have been presumed to ward off back luck and purported to bring good luck. Carry this four-leaf clover breathing exercise everywhere you go. When needed take a mindful breath with your four-leaf clover. Follow the...

“Peace be with you.” Penny explores the peace that healed the disciples who were in lockdown, paralyzed by doubt and fear. Have you ever experienced that type of fear and the peace that heals? The disciples were hiding in fear. Jesus had died on the cross. Doubt and fear filled their hearts - so ...

Bill examines the dynamics and forms of life leading to growth or destruction – which do we value? Today we meet Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and Judas who questions Mary’s actions of “wasting” expensive perfume on Jesus’ feet. Mary had an intentionality to her actions – focused on love and Jesus that ...

Time to breathe and pray. The Baptism of Christ by Ricci, 1713/14, comes alive during 4-4-4 breathing, prayer, and Amazing Grace. Refreshes the mind and the spirit. Join in reciting the Lord’s Prayer silently or verbally as you breathe, listen to Amazing Grace, and watch Christ’s baptism emerge f...

Bill talks about the choices we make in life - how we are an individual in life and how we participate with others. Bill unpacks understandings of individuation and participation through the Parable of the Prodigal and His Brother offered by Jesus in Luke 15:1-3 and 11b-32. Courage from deep with...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch a candle burn slowly as calmness comes alive. Experience mindful 4-4-4 breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4. Repeat as needed or return to daily life.

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Penny and Bill explore taking time to smell the flowers – taking time to be with God. Do we take time for God? Jesus did. Take Time to smell the flowers, aka sabbath time. Explore the amazing story of Jesus taking some time to be with God and reading from the scroll of Isaiah. Learn how God’s gra...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as an evening primrose in the Badlands National Park comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindfu...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as a sunflower in New Harmony, Indiana comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing wi...

Penny takes a trip on the wild side exploring life’s wild adventures and how God is always with us – we are not alone. Penny enjoys hiking and having adventures. It can be pretty wild out there when walking in nature. Like the time at Glacier National Park when Penny and Bill went off the pathway...

Penny and Bill delve deep into wine – Jesus’ first miracle changing water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Concerns can often arise at a wedding – and it did at a wedding at Cana that Jesus was at when the wine ran out. At first, he simply wanted to continue enjoying the wedding, but his mother ...

The anxieties of life are very real – and no one is immune from having anxiety that can create a mind fog. At times, we all can feel like our head is somewhere else making it hard to focus on life - let alone our spiritual self-care that can fill the heart, mind, body, soul, and relationships in ...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as the pink color intensifies as calmness comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4. Repeat as needed or return to daily life.

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Bill focuses on the painful daily struggle… do we corrupt another day or work toward healing? Every day every person has a choice… do we continue to expand the ills of otherness made visible in the world through oppression, disenfranchisement, and disempowerment - or do we spend the next 24 hours...

Time to breathe and pray. Paradise by Carlo Saraceni, circa 1598, comes alive during 4-4-4 breathing, prayer, and Amazing Grace. Refreshes the mind and the spirit. Join in reciting the Lord’s Prayer silently or verbally as you breathe, listen to Amazing Grace, and watch Paradise emerge from the s...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as Love comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (using visual e...

Bill delves deep into solitude, the cousin of loneliness, recognizing that we are never alone. Loneliness can destroy us – solitude holds us together. For where two or three are gathered Christ is present – but how can that be if we are all alone? Bill looks to scripture for an answer… the Advoca...

Time to breathe and pray. Christ and Woman of Samaria by Luti, 1715-20, comes alive during 4-4-4 breathing, prayer, and Amazing Grace. Refreshes the mind and the spirit. Join in reciting the Lord’s Prayer silently or verbally as you breathe, listen to Amazing Grace, and watch Christ and the Woman...

Podcast - Loneliness is very real. It can strip us of our humanness. Bill shares his thoughts on changing loneliness into solitude – a choice? Is it possible? Is there a difference? Expanding upon the theological thought of systematic theologian Paul Tillich, Bill looks at the difference between ...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as calmness comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (using visu...

Penny highlights that doubt and anxiety messes with us. Don’t let it stand in the way of experiencing God’s peace and love. Today Penny looks at living in fear being filled with profound doubt and anxiety through the story of Doubting Thomas from the Gospel of John 20:19-31. Thomas, one of the di...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as calmness comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (using visu...

Podcast - Death is painful. Penny focuses on where to find strength and support in difficult times, especially in the painful experience of the death of a bestie. Penny reflects on how Jesus shared time, had empathy, and consoled his besties – Mary and Martha. All were distraught at Lazarus’ deat...

Time to breathe and pray. Rose imagery comes alive during 4-4-4 breathing, prayer, and Amazing Grace. Refreshes the mind and the spirit. Join in reciting the Lord’s Prayer silently or verbally as you breathe, listen to Amazing Grace, and watch the Rose emerge from the shadows.

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Podcast - Penny asks: “Have you ever asked someone you don’t know for a drink?” Jesus did. Faith blossomed. Jesus was thirsty and asked a Samaritan woman for a drink of water, breaking the cultural codes of his day. Jesus’ conversation with the woman about “living water” opened her eyes and the e...

Calm down. Take a minibreak. Breathe mindfully. Think football happy thoughts. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (usi...

Podcast - Penny highlights the mystery of doing extraordinary things, growing in faith, and believing in miracles. Fear can stop us from sharing or it can compel us to do extraordinary things, to grow in faith, and believe. Don’t let fear win. Penny reflects on John 6:1-21 and the extraordinary t...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as a colorful heart of pencils comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio...

Podcast - Frozen in fear? Give them a mission? Transformation? What? Today Penny reflects on the angel, the woman, and the tomb. What did the angel tell the women who went to visit Jesus at the tomb? Will they remain frozen in fear? Will awareness, freedom and courage take hold? Listen and see ho...

Be Kind Mindful Moment Digital Labyrinth Walk invites you to clear the mind and refresh the Spirit. The capacity to be kind is in our hands and true kindness reaches around the world with compassion, love, and purpose. We are witnessing this type of kindness now in the United States following the...

Podcast - Bill explores every generation has a choice ~ continue or stand against abuse, violence, oppression, and disenfranchisement. Do we wish to remain weary, carrying heavy burdens with no rest? There is another way. Bill looks at Christ’s yoke of love that encourages individual and social r...

When despair rises, we are invited to set new goals. What does that look like? Imagine…

When despair rises through so many different forms – meaninglessness, guilt, condemnation - we are invited to set a new agenda with new goals. What does that look like? Imagine new possibilities – reflect, pr...

Podcast - Penny highlights the mysterious role that we are all called to be ambassadors of God’s divine love. Each of us is called to do great things like the great architects that built Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, France. Built in honor of God and named for Our Lady, Mary the Mother of Jesus,...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as Carol’s Garden in New Harmony, Indiana comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing...

Podcast - Penny and Bill look at the dramatic story of God opening the sky. Imagine ~ the sky opened! Why did God open the sky? Was God happy or mad? Did God say anything? Explore the amazing story of Jesus’ baptism when the sky opened, a dove appeared, and a voice spoke from the heavens saying: ...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as the Great Mississippi comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divin...

Podcast - What star do you follow? What treasures do you share? Penny and Bill explore how following the star, God’s call for your life, invites sharing your treasures with the world. Examine the story of the Magi, the 3 Kings, the Wise Ones, who followed their star and shared their gifts. What i...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as Love comes alive from. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (using vis...

Podcast - Penny and Bill dive deep exploring the light within that overcomes life’s anxieties. Discover God’s grace and see the light of Christ’s love alive in the world. Reflect on John 1:1-18 and discover that darkness can seem to be all around, but light overtakes darkness ~ and that light is ...

Take a minibreak - breathe mindfully and watch as rose comes alive. Experience mindful breathing - inhale for a count of 4 - hold for a count of 4 - exhale for a count of 4 - repeat as needed or return to daily life. Refocus – Reset – Experience Mindful Breathing with Visio Divina (using visual e...

DRVS newscasters Penny and Bill report Breaking News, Jesus is alive after having been crucified. Not the traditional Easter/Resurrection Sunday story, this story examines the struggle that Jesus’ resurrection created for those who knew him personally including Doubting Thomas. Join the journey a...

Time to breathe and pray. The Crucifixion by Durer, 1509-10, comes alive during 4-4-4 breathing, prayer, and Amazing Grace. Refreshes the mind and the spirit. Join in reciting the Lord’s Prayer silently or verbally as you breathe, listen to Amazing Grace, and watch the reality of Jesus’ crucifixi...

DRVS newscasters Penny and Bill report Breaking News, the story of Good Friday, Jesus is dead. Delve deep into the story of Good Friday through reports from four reporters who are on the street reporting the events as they unfold… Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Jesus is dead. It is finished. Or i...

Penny and Bill share the story of Good Friday through prayer, singing, and scripture. Good Friday commemorates the day Jesus died. It is a time to reflect as well as imagine the complexities of that moment in time for those who unlike us did not yet know the rest of the story… that Jesus would ra...

Podcast - This first podcast begins the journey. Discover more about DaRevsUSA, the Rev Dr Penny Taylor LCSW and the Rev Dr Bill Ressl LCSW, as they map out who they are and what they offer. Today, Penny and Bill share what’s behind the name DaRevsUSA. Discover what to expect by exploring a brief...

Do we take time for God? Jesus did. Take Time to smell the flowers, aka sabbath time. Explore the amazing story of Jesus taking some time to be with God and reading from the scroll of Isaiah. Learn how God’s grace is all around if we open our eyes. Together we’ll sing, pray, share scripture, and ...

Imagine turning water into wine. Have you ever been to a wedding where the wine ran out? Jesus was at a wedding and the wine did run out. What happens next? Come, explore. Enjoy this World-Wide Gathering with DaRevsUSA. Penny & Bill reflect on turning water into wine from John 2:1-11. Let’s get ...

Imagine ~ the sky opened! Was God happy or mad? Explore the amazing story of Jesus’ baptism when the sky opened, a dove appeared, and a voice spoke from the heavens saying: “I am well pleased” (Luke 3:15-17 & 21-22). Why was God pleased? Is God pleased with us today? Join DaRevsUSA ~ the Rev. Dr....

What star do you follow? What gifts do you bring to life? Join DaRevsUSA as they explore the Magi, the 3 Kings, the Wise One’s, who followed a star and openly shared their gifts. Did they have to? No, but they did. Explore God’s call and how the Magi followed their call, a star that took them to ...

Welcome to this first DaRevsUSA World-Wide Gathering with DaRevsUSA, Rev. Dr. Penny Taylor and Rev. Dr. Bill Ressl. Explore the meaning of light and darkness through the Gospel of John 1:1-18 as well as through prayers and song. Come! Let us join together offering the world a voice of peace, kind...