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Spiritual exercise: Prayer
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Spiritual exercise: Prayer

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Jeremiah 31:12

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: Thematic Word Study
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Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study

This month I invite you to join me in the Scriptures with an open heart to what God longs to reveal to us.

This is a suggestion of a slow reading, prayerful and responsive study for God to form, renew, and transform our hearts and living…

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Spiritual exercise: Breath prayer
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Spiritual exercise: Breath prayer

Is it sometimes difficult to know what words to pray? Have you ever felt like prayer is hard?

“Breathing is an unconscious thing. And breath prayer reminds us that just as we can’t live on one breath of air, we can’t live on one breath of God.”—by Adele Calhoun

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Spiritual exercise: Lectio Divina
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Spiritual exercise: Lectio Divina

Lectio Divina offers a way of “attending to Scripture, which invites us into God’s presence to listen for His particular, loving word to me at this particular moment in time.” —by Adele Calhoun

This devotional reading was traditionally made up of five movements…

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