Making and Keeping Habits
What habit would you like to quit? (eating when I’m not hungry) What habit would you like to start? (closing the laptop earlier in the evenings) The exact things that…
Read moreBible Journaling
Do you do Bible journaling? It’s especially in vogue with new Journaling Bibles in print and lots of Instagram pictures of artistic journaling. But at its basic, it’s still listening and…
Read moreBegin again
I don’t like to start over. It seems like a waste of time. Can’t I just pick up where I left off and keep going? But sometimes beginning again is…
Read moreTake an inner vacation
“The call, I am certain, is to stop reaching, forcing, and trying to make the experience into something. I need to recognize that it already is something. My willingness to…
Read moreCan you be quiet?
Words are often two to three steps removed from true experience. – Richard Rohr A Catholic, an Episcopalian, and a Baptist walk into a room. They ask the remaining 27…
Read more12 [different] spiritual disciplines
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This isn’t the typical list of spiritual disciplines that we’re used to, i.e. fasting, solitude, worship, prayer, service, etc. Instead it’s a year’s worth of spiritual disciplines from Barbara Brown…
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