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Spiritual exercise: Breath prayer
Is it sometimes difficult to know what words to pray? Have you ever felt like prayer is hard?
“Breathing is an unconscious thing. And breath prayer reminds us that just as we can’t live on one breath of air, we can’t live on one breath of God.”—by Adele Calhoun
Guest feature
Trust the Slow Work of God.
We enter into this new year, armed with goals and resolutions. We found our word for the year and are motivated to see something new, do something new, have something new, be something new…
Dorothy Sayers, “Solo” by Stephen W. Smith, & Michelle Marie Sharp’s newest book…
Our lives can get full and the tensions can become heavy and tiring so what can help us rest, release and refresh? Jesus. He helps us by showing His way…
Word Shift: loneliness to aloneness
What I want to share is something I’ve come to appreciate with words.
It is called Word Shift. What takes place? A word shift happens when you take a familiar word, and notice its pattern of usage that holds you in some kind of stuck place, where life or thoughts become a little foggy or dim because the word has some trigger or effects you in some way that isn’t helpful. Sometimes the word has a feeling of resistance as well.
The offering is a Word Shift. This has been helpful for me—it brings in a newness, a light, a clearing of cloudiness…