Karen Bables
Welcome to my blog about living as apprentices of Jesus! I am passionate about spiritual transformation and about helping others become like Jesus for the sake of others.
One of my favorite quotes is: "Whatever job we get and whatever task we are assigned can serve as a container for grace" (Eugene Peterson in "Practical Resurrection"). I pray that the words and sentences on this blog may also serve as "containers of grace" for its readers.
I ordinarily post on Wednesdays and Saturdays and welcome your comments on any post!
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Tag Archives: transformation
Buying $3 Worth of God
I was hopscotching through some of my early posts the other day when I found this quote: “I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough … Continue reading
Transformed Lives Transforming the World – “Every Step an Arrival”
“Holy habits deepen into fixed patterns of life. We experience a growing preponderance of right actions flowing from a right heart” (Richard Foster in Streams of Living Water). This powerful quote from a major figure in the revival of the … Continue reading
Transformed Lives Transforming the World in 2019 – The Need to be Transformed
“Holy habits deepen into fixed patterns of life. We experience a growing preponderance of right actions flowing from a right heart” (Richard Foster in Streams of Living Water). This powerful quote from a major figure in the revival of the concept … Continue reading
Posted in Transformed Lives Transforming the World - 2019
Tagged Antoine De Saint Exupery, Richard Foster, Richard Rohr, transformation
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Going Deeper with God – Rooted and Growing (Ephesians 3: 16 -19)
In Eat this Book, Eugene Peterson teaches us to chew on a passage of scripture, digest it, and put it to use in practical ways. Our Christian fathers and mothers called this process Lectio Divina. In this passage, we are encouraged to dip … Continue reading
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Tagged Ephesians 3, hidden self, the With-God life, transformation
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From My Reading
“You need to be liberated. Don’t carry over experiences from the past. In fact, don’t carry over good experiences from the past either. Learn what it means to experience something fully, then drop it and move on to the next moment, uninfluenced … Continue reading
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Tagged liberation, separation, transformation, Weavings
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The Cycle of Forgiveness
Many deep thinkers, all wiser than I, have written about forgiveness. They have shared their stories and their reflections on those stories, and I have learned much from them. But I have also learned much from reflecting on my own … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged forgiveness, Making amends, Richard Rohr, the crucified Jesus, transformation
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Making the History We Want to Live in
The news this morning is particularly ugly — bombings, natural disasters, refugee crises, government corruption, nasty presidential primary politics, armed conflict in every corner. I am reminded of a post I wrote for this blog in 2013 which I am … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged Dallas Willard, Morning Edition, transformation, VIM
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