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Dwelling places
Hello Friends!
I thank you for joining me on this blog journey. I thought I’d share if you may be wondering why the name “dwelling places” keeps appearing and why the title of my reflections. It is in recognizing the patterns of my daily beginnings. Often I find myself waking and feeling like today’s hard. And asking, how am I going to get going, or get through it? Do you feel this struggle?
Women engaged. Ruth Barton’s “Sacred Rhythms.” Current podcast “Guided Prayer: broken identities” with Michelle M. Sharp.
I find myself midway through this engaging reading on rhythms and how to arrange “our lives for spiritual transformation.” The chapter on discernment practices “requires us to go beyond the basics”--to notice our inner dynamics where we hear desire and calling…
Guest feature
Often words are hard and tiresome when I am already weary, so creating small, sometimes really simple, goofy sketches to reflect on my day is easier. Sometimes it is really hard. But I think it is always good. It helps keep my eyes open to the world around me…
Spiritual exercise
Begin a contemplative walk somewhere away from your normal space if possible. Listen to the stirrings as your feet walk and your senses engage. What thoughts about this word or phrase come to mind? Hold those thoughts. Pause if you need to and look out around you, look up into the sky…