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Dwelling places: Rejoicing Roots (pt II)
What are you noticing in your life of staying with what God is doing in you or through you?
After writing last month’s posting on Finding Your Roots, I began pondering the path forward. In my plan to share the second half of what was shared at the retreat (I will include this) I have shifted and find myself drawn to share some of my present life with God. He has been encouraging me to not only share some on listening and silence but also to draw attention to the vitality of “rejoicing” in the midst of the hard things we encounter in our daily life. The hard things: …
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
Dwelling places: Finding Your Roots (part I)
Have you ever watched the PBS program “Finding Your Roots”?
The host (Henry Louis Gates Jr.) invites celebrities to the program to discover portions of their past, their family lineages. Throughout the program, he often points out and speaks of where they came from and how the celebrity is where they are now. He guides them on a journey of…
A Snail’s Pace: Beauty, prayer, and rhythms of rest.
Current Readings
The Invisible Embrace: Beauty by John O’Donohue
The subtitle is Rediscovering The True Stories of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope. Every bit of this book even the titles offer invitations to just sit with before even opening the pages beyond…
Another kind and engaging read has been: Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom In The Rhythms of Rest by Lynne M. Baab. If you haven’t read a book on Sabbath, I recommend this one.
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