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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
Lent 2021: Not What We Will Give Up, But What We Will Live For – Part 2, Active Compassion
“Lent needs to be not what you will give up, but what you will live for. Not how you might demonstrate your piety, but how you might live in true obedience to God. Not what you will prove, but what … Continue reading
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Tagged Compassion International, Doctors without Borders, FaceTime, Feeding America, Lent, Renovare, Richard Foster, Zoom
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Lent 2021: Not What We Will Give Up, But What We Will Live For – Part 1, Speaking the Truth
“This Lent needs to be not what you will give up, but what you will live for. Not how you might demonstrate your piety, but how you might live in true obedience to God. Not what you will prove, but what … Continue reading
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Tagged Lent, truth telling
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Going Deeper with God: Exodus 33: 18-33 – The “Afterwardness” of God
Peterson’s book Eat this Book teaches us to chew on a passage of scripture, digest it, and then put it to use in practical ways. Our Christian fathers and mothers called this process Lectio Divina. This story about Moses from … Continue reading
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Tagged Center for Action and Contemplation, Exodus 33. Richard Rohr
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Everything is Transformed
Some of you may know that my husband Fred died in October after years of suffering from fourth stage COPD and congestive heart failure. This reflection is about my journey without him. My life is “measured out in coffee spoons”* … Continue reading
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Tagged Dallas Willard, Dalllas Willard, eternal life, healing, Renovare, The Divine Conspiracy
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Training for Gratitude – Part 2
My favorite spiritual discipline is gratitude. I recently searched my blog and found nine posts on gratitude! I decided that one or two more wouldn’t hurt. If invoked consistently, gratitude cancels out some of the ugliest non-loving behaviors I routinely … Continue reading
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Tagged Finding Quiet: My Story of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought Peace, gratitude, J.P. Moreland
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Training for Gratitude – Part 1
My favorite spiritual discipline is gratitude. I recently searched my blog and found nine posts on gratitude! I decided that one or two more wouldn’t hurt. If invoked consistently, gratitude cancels out some of the ugliest non-loving behaviors I routinely … Continue reading
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Tagged Finding Quiet, Finding Quiet: My Story of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought Peace, gratitude, J.P. Moreland, Robert Emmons
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I Dream of a Church
Inspired by a Langston Hughes poem, I Dream of a World, NPR’s Morning Edition resident poet Kwame Alexander and host Rachel Martin suggested that listeners write their way out of the unprecedented events of the past year and into a space of … Continue reading
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Tagged Kwame Alexander, Langston Hughes, NPR's Morning Edition
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Redeeming Daily Life – By a Guest Blogger
“To start seeing that the many events of our day, week, or year are not in the way of our search for a full life but are rather the way to it is a real experience of conversion. We discover … Continue reading
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