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All in Deep Listening
Registration is now open for a four-week listening group experience starting on October 27th.
The rhythm of the swing can be a lot like the inward and outward movement of the contemplative life. But there is a vulnerability in swinging and in the contemplative life, of trusting the momentum to move forward or backward, from centered self, out into the world.
The contemplative life has an ebb and flow rhythm taking us inward to know God and outward to express God. How has contemplation lead you to action? How has action lead you into contemplation?
What are you finding within the contemplative womb in your relationship with God? Are you still exploring your own story, incubating in the warmth of lavish love? Or are you ready to fledge, to soar on faith wings?
Guided Meditation #5: Key to My Heart… We rarely show hospitality to our own souls, yet entering the heart space where God waits to welcome us is the key to this prayer of imagination. Welcome in.
Guided Meditation #2 takes you deep into the call for something more, more connection, contentment, more of God.
How would you describe the center point of listening? How do you define listening?
Abiding with God, self, and others requires a devoted commitment to explore what that means for you, and how spiritual direction may play a role in this commitment.
What’s the most asked question I get when I tell someone I’m a spiritual director? “What’s a spiritual director and what do you do?”
One of the more frustrating parts of the spiritual life can be discerning the signs or hearing the voice within that moves us along the path on our journey. Exploring the possibilities takes time.
A list of six books recommended for developing a life of prayer and meditation.
Meditating on art, images, nature, all that the eye can see is a doorway and into the love language of God. Visio divina is sacred seeing as we contemplate color, texture, tones, motion, and learn to see God.
Engaging the imagination in the spiritual life I believe is how God intended for us to use this amazing brain function. After all “faith” is about believing what we cannot see. And “hope” plants a longing in something we have not yet received.
How do you practice “active and engaged meditation?” One ancient spiritual practice called lectio divina is a prayerful attentive reading of scripture.
Meditation is the discipline that opens hearts and minds to transformation. It’s about a posture of open hands and heart, releasing all that we think we need to be free and unencumbered to receive all that God intends.
What’s it like to battle for your faith while in a spiritual desert? How does spiritual direction help?
The gentle rhythm of slowing moving from external to internal and back out again is symbolic of the spiritual path moving ever nearer to the inner being, the abiding place of God.
Although I am no dream-works specialist, I love paying attention to my dreams and the symbols they become in my own life. I believe they are windows into the soul – unfiltered images surfacing from deep within mind and spirit
If the world lived in Sabbath rest, even one day a week, what a difference it might make in realigning our perspective on the struggles and dashed expectations and our incessant battle to be heard.
