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Spiritual exercise: Prayer
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Spiritual exercise: Prayer

Visio Divina (meaning divine vision, seeing with the eyes of your heart): The movement of this prayer uses a visual to help guide and set our minds on prayer thus allowing God to speak into our hearts through the image. Invitation. Find a quiet and comfortable place to be still with God…

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Spiritual exercise
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Spiritual exercise

Begin a contemplative walk somewhere away from your normal space if possible. Listen to the stirrings as your feet walk and your senses engage. What thoughts about this word or phrase come to mind? Hold those thoughts. Pause if you need to and look out around you, look up into the sky…

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Spiritual exercise
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Spiritual exercise

Do you often feel anxious? Worried? Confused? Overwhelmed? Tired? I would imagine if you are like me, these words can speak to a part of your everyday life in some form or another. We are human. We are in need. We look for breaks in our day …

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