The Best Birthday Gift
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on April 24, 2012
By Sharon Swing, Co-Author of Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story I turned 50 a few weeks ago. I wanted to see if God might have something he wanted to say to me on my 50th birthday. I headed off to a beautiful garden and walked the [...]
Living Into Lent
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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 [...]
Be Here Now
Posted by on February 14, 2012
“Be Here Now” by Jean Masukevich, Yoga Instructor and Founder, Soar 4 Kids, Inc. Deep breath in… Long breath out… Rooting through the sit bones, sinking, feel the earth receive you. Rising through the crown of your head, spine is tall and straight. Belly is soft. There is room to breathe! I breathe… Arrive… Notice… [...]
Christ For Me. Christ In Me. Christ Through Me.
Posted by 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 [...]
Looking Forward in the New Year
Posted by on January 24, 2012
By Joan Kelley with poem by Larry James Peacock “A Prayer for the New Year” Loving God, journey with me this year so that I may feel Your presence, abide in Your forgiveness, grow in Your strength, and dwell in Your love. Give me an open heart, an open mind, and open eyes so that [...]
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 [...]
Will I Receive the Gift?
Posted by on December 20, 2011
by Joan Kelley, Director of Facilitator Development and oneLifemaps Facilitator For the last 3 weeks of Advent we have considered several questions in this blog. Are you listening? Will you open the door? Will I bring my gift to Him? I wonder what questions God may be having you consider this week as we approach [...]
Will You Open The Door?
Posted by on December 6, 2011
Questions to Ponder: What story of Christ might you want to spend time reading this Christmas? What might you want to explore during this Advent season? Is there a door in your life that needs opening? What possibilities lie behind that door? How can [...]
Invitation To A Journey
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on August 10, 2011
by Sibyl Towner, Co-Author Listen to My Life To slow down and be still with God can be a struggle, especially with the noise and activity of our lives. Listen and watch as Sibyl shares her experience of entering into solitude in the midst of living a full and busy life.