KAREN BRAILSFORD
  • Home
  • I am
  • Praise
  • Inspire
    • Sacred Landscapes (excerpts) >
      • Spiraling
      • Sacred Landscapes of the Soul
      • Go Directly to Jubilee
      • Bring the Party
      • A Life Is God Writ Large
      • Soot into Soil
      • In the Here and Now
      • Creation Story
      • In This Skin
    • Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit (talk + guided meditation)
    • Omega Institute Workshop
    • Inner Visions >
      • Burnished Love
      • An Appreciation
      • Forward
      • Life As We Know It And See It
      • Precipice and Presence
      • Sentient and Prescient
      • The I Am of Resonance
      • The Glass Is Always Full
      • You Will Know
    • Talks >
      • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (recitation)
      • Knowing the Soul (conversation)
      • God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher (talk)
      • Go Directly to Jubilee! (talk)
    • Paintings
  • Agent
    • Aevitas Creative Management
    • Writer's Digest
    • His Name Is George Floyd
    • Kamala's Way
  • Write Volumes
    • Short Stories >
      • In the Eye of the Beholder
      • It's Time
      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
    • Essays >
      • Mommy, Still
      • Floating Like Butterflies
      • Feast
    • Poems >
      • Initiation of the Disembodied
      • Covid: Covert No More
      • Harriet and Me
  • Unity
    • Daily Word Magazine >
      • My Journey to Yes
    • Spirituality & Health Magazine >
      • Amandla Stenberg Channels The Force
      • Marianne Williamson: Evolving Out of Darkness
      • Lee Harris: Channeling As a Transformational Tool
      • Deva Premal & Miten: How Mantras Heal
      • Sharon Salzberg Cultivates Loving-Kindness
      • Kate Bowler Shows Grace in Gravity
    • Unity Magazine >
      • Smells Like Teen Spirit
      • From Grief to Grace
      • Rising in Joy
      • Blessed by a Dress
      • This Is How You Pray
      • For A Reason, for a Season, or for a Lifetime
  • Media
    • Download Kit
    • Articles and books
    • Podcasts, radio and video >
      • The Peace Studio Summit 2021
      • The Jenny McCarthy Show
      • In the Flow With Rev. Skip
      • Waking Up in Daily Life
      • The Only One in the Room
      • Bridges & Blessings with Rev. Julie
    • Press
  • Blog
  • Connect
Picture
My hummingbird of hope

Words of wisdom and comfort.
​

Picture

​THE DALAI LAMA GLOBAL VISION SUMMIT: THE POWER OF COMPASSION
Talk: The Four Chambers of a Compassionate Heart: Availability, Appreciation, Acceptance and Action 
Guided meditation: An Invitation to Accept Yourself
​
​WATCH →

Picture

SELECTIONS

​Contributions to Agape International Spiritual Center's monthly publication written by practitioners and ministers

Burnished Love


An Appreciation 

​Forward

Precipice and Presence

Life As We Know It And See It

Sentient and Prescient

The I Am of Resonance

The Glass Is Always Full

You Will Know
​

Picture

​EXCERPTS
​
Spiraling
THERE IS A TENDENCY TO BELIEVE that life is linear. We travel through the phases of existence pausing here, stopping there, skipping, sauntering, running, and yes, at times, colliding, tripping and falling, from one stage to the next. We think that as we matriculate from one experience to the next, we accumulate knowledge that will catapult us into a rarefied place, an exalted state.
READ MORE →


Sacred Landscapes of the Soul
IN THE THICKNESS OF THE UNKNOWN it can appear that you are traveling into no man's land. This is true, for no individual has ever gone or will ever go where you traverse. As you forge ahead on your journey, you will come across diverse terrain. You will meet dense forests and fertile gardens overrun with unfamiliar trees and plants. Stop and smell the roses...
READ MORE →


Go Directly to Jubilee
​KNOW THIS MUCH: You may lay down your weapons of anger and fear, and start playing your heartstrings. You may strip away the tattered garments of your former selves and let them collapse in a heap at your feet. Instead, drape yourselves in coats of many colors stitched together with the threads of your spiritual practices.
READ MORE →


Bring the Party
YOUR POWER IS IMMEASURABLE, boundless and beatific. Step right up, move past the conditions and concerns of your life, and take your place on the grand stage. You are charged with the life-affirming task of acting out the scenes, designing the sets, directing the action and choreographing the movements. This is your production.
​READ MORE 
→


A Life Is God Writ Large
TO FOCUS ONE'S LIFE upon an inner vision is to surrender and let God be God. Grace does the seeing. The heart does the hearing. And God, always God, bestows the rhymes and the rhythms, the allusions and the allegories, the imagery and the imagination. When  you surrender, God will let it flow—whether it's the words onto the page or a vision for your life.
​READ MORE →


Soot into Soil
THERE WILL COME A TIME when you realize that you have said enough, cajoled enough, denied enough, braved enough, chastised enough, purged enough, cried enough, done enough—and all that is left is you. Not the you others think you should be or believe they know, but the true you: the embodiment of unadulterated essence and pure love. 
READ MORE
 →


In the Here and Now
UNFURL YOUR LANGUID RESERVATIONS and hurl them into the cosmos, assured that they will morph into giant possibilities and stick to the lens of your dreams. Unfold your desperate denials and cast them far out beyond the horizons of your insecurities, confident that they will return to you with all of the energy of a boomerang and land at your feet with aplomb. 
​READ MORE
 →


Creation Story
DEAR BELOVED, 
​How I miss the way you used to delight in our playtime together, your child-like laughter cascading along hillsides, shimmying down majestic trees, skipping over waters like pretty stones. We leaped and loved, luxuriating in the possibility of whatever your heart may have desired. You did not deny me—not once, not twice, not even thrice before the crowing of the rooster. 
READ MORE 
→

​
In This Skin
IN THE GREAT GETTIN' UP MORNING, when you fly away into the Is-ness, the All-ness, the Nothingness, the Eternal, the Ephemeral, you will think on this particular journey in this life and in this skin, and count the many ways you loved yourself and were therefore able to love everyone else.
READ MORE 
→

TALKS
Picture
Oh me, oh Maya

AGAPE INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CENTER
Still I Rise
February 28, 2021


Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

​WATCH RECITATION →

Picture
​​
​JUBILEE COMMUNITY! CHURCH
​Go Directly to Jubilee!
June 13, 2021

WATCH  TALK →

​
Picture

​JUBILEE COMMUNITY! CHURCH
​God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher
Valentine's Day 2021

WATCH TALK →

My paintings with Spirit.
​



​What I see and foresee.

​


    Let's stay together. Get news and inspiration.
    ​

sign up
Picture
© ​Karen Brailsford 2020-2025
​
  • Home
  • I am
  • Praise
  • Inspire
    • Sacred Landscapes (excerpts) >
      • Spiraling
      • Sacred Landscapes of the Soul
      • Go Directly to Jubilee
      • Bring the Party
      • A Life Is God Writ Large
      • Soot into Soil
      • In the Here and Now
      • Creation Story
      • In This Skin
    • Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit (talk + guided meditation)
    • Omega Institute Workshop
    • Inner Visions >
      • Burnished Love
      • An Appreciation
      • Forward
      • Life As We Know It And See It
      • Precipice and Presence
      • Sentient and Prescient
      • The I Am of Resonance
      • The Glass Is Always Full
      • You Will Know
    • Talks >
      • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (recitation)
      • Knowing the Soul (conversation)
      • God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher (talk)
      • Go Directly to Jubilee! (talk)
    • Paintings
  • Agent
    • Aevitas Creative Management
    • Writer's Digest
    • His Name Is George Floyd
    • Kamala's Way
  • Write Volumes
    • Short Stories >
      • In the Eye of the Beholder
      • It's Time
      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
    • Essays >
      • Mommy, Still
      • Floating Like Butterflies
      • Feast
    • Poems >
      • Initiation of the Disembodied
      • Covid: Covert No More
      • Harriet and Me
  • Unity
    • Daily Word Magazine >
      • My Journey to Yes
    • Spirituality & Health Magazine >
      • Amandla Stenberg Channels The Force
      • Marianne Williamson: Evolving Out of Darkness
      • Lee Harris: Channeling As a Transformational Tool
      • Deva Premal & Miten: How Mantras Heal
      • Sharon Salzberg Cultivates Loving-Kindness
      • Kate Bowler Shows Grace in Gravity
    • Unity Magazine >
      • Smells Like Teen Spirit
      • From Grief to Grace
      • Rising in Joy
      • Blessed by a Dress
      • This Is How You Pray
      • For A Reason, for a Season, or for a Lifetime
  • Media
    • Download Kit
    • Articles and books
    • Podcasts, radio and video >
      • The Peace Studio Summit 2021
      • The Jenny McCarthy Show
      • In the Flow With Rev. Skip
      • Waking Up in Daily Life
      • The Only One in the Room
      • Bridges & Blessings with Rev. Julie
    • Press
  • Blog
  • Connect