The Prison of Shyness
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on May 7, 2013
By Bonnie Ferris, oneLifemaps Facilitator Being shy is like being in a prison. Although I don’t know what it’s like to be in a physical prison, I do know what it’s like to be locked up inside. Recently, my husband asked me to attend a dinner for a roller blading club where he belongs. He [...]
Questions That Help Us Grow
Posted by on August 28, 2012
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author of Listen To My Life Have you ever had this phrase, “I want a deeper relationship with God,” stir in your heart? When phrases like this emerge in life, you have the opportunity to allow them to help draw you toward conversations with God. Paying attention to those questions can help [...]
Listening To My Life
Posted by on August 7, 2012
By Sharon Swing, Co-Author of Listen To My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story Experience turns belief into faith. There is a difference between believing something to be true and knowing it to be true. I can believe the Bible because it is the word of God. I know certain [...]
What is really true?
Posted by on April 17, 2012
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author Listen To My Life What are the ways you are growing in Him? At one point in my life I just took time to think about what was really true for me related to continuous growth in Him. I made a little list for myself and called it marks of growth. [...]
Lenten Learning
Posted by on March 27, 2012
by Jenny Trees, oneLife Maps Facilitator Lent is a tool that in denying oneself extraneous desires we are able to more clearly see God’s provision for us. Jesus fasted to look beyond himself. We fast in order to get a better understanding of the power and provision of God. There is suffering in letting go [...]
Naming Your Dreams
Posted by on March 20, 2012
By Cheri Hudspith, oneLife Maps Facilitator and Director of Leadership Development with the Evangelical Center for Spiritual Wisdom A year ago, I wrote the following in a post about naming desires and longings: I ask God for humble courage. I ask God, above all things, to give me a heart that wants what His heart [...]
Living Into Lent
Posted by on February 22, 2012
by Linda Holmes, Spiritual Director Winter blossoms white and melts into rainbow colored flowers. Lent welcomes life, stirs deep, draws forth, breathes warm, Waking spring’s hostages to buried sins and borrowed sorrows. Short days of cold stretch longer as sunlight reaches late into the night. The earthbound growing strong, reaching out, rising up, Break free [...]
Christ For Me. Christ In Me. Christ Through Me.
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on January 31, 2012
By Sharon Swing, Co-Author, Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story This breath prayer is one I say as a way of reminding myself who I am and to whom I belong. It offers me peace, perspective and perseverance in times when I may be willing to believe [...]
Reviewing Your Year
Posted by on January 17, 2012
By Joan Kelley and Sibyl Towner The spiritual practice of the daily examen, what we call “reviewing my day,” helps us to live more fully in the present, learn from our moments of the day and recognize and respond to God. The same practice of review can be applied to our spiritual year. Take some [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Posted by on November 8, 2011
By Deitra Shoemaker, oneLife Maps Facilitator As I think about the good, the bad and the ugly in my story, I see the good as the blessings of God. I see the bad as the trials and sufferings I’ve experienced from those who have sinned against me as well as just the acknowledgement of the [...]