Category Archives: Tending Our Souls
Why We Train Our Souls
We’ve been talking about a series of soul-training practices all Fall. In this lesson we pause from these content-dense lessons, to reflect on why we want to train our souls in the first place. I determined to teach this lesson to myself as I focus my soul this Advent, and decided to let everyone else listen in. Continue reading
Thanksgiving 2009
Each year around the Thanksgiving holiday, we revisit the theme of gratitude and thankfulness. This ancient path, like the others we’re examining this fall, has power to transform, strengthen, and awaken our souls. Continue reading
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Soul-Training: Kindness to Strangers (part 4)
We continue looking at the Divine Call to be a hospitable people to strangers and outsiders, 1200 years after the Calling of Abraham was issued. This soul-training tool is again, a powerful means to both better the earth and transform our souls Continue reading
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Soul-Training: Kindness to Strangers (part 3)
We continue looking at hospitality as a soul-training tool, a way to both better the earth and transform our souls. Continue reading
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Soul-Training: Kindness to Strangers (part 2)
We continue looking at hospitality as a soul-training tool, a way to both better the earth and transform our souls. Continue reading
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Soul-Training: Kindness to Strangers (part 1)
As we’re talking about the ancient paths that tend to the well-being of the soul, we turn to the early practice of hospitality. From the time of Abraham, this has been a central theme of spiritual people. Continue reading
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Soul-Training: The Welcoming Prayer
In this lesson we look at a very practical way to turn our prayer less into words, and more into awakening to the awareness of what God is already up to. It’s a contemplative practice for daily use called The Welcoming Prayer. Continue reading
Soul-Training: Praying Differently (introduction)
Many have abandoned prayer as irrelevant, incomprehensible, or useless. Sadly, there is good reason why they have done so. In this lesson we talk about how prayer has devolved into talking, talking, talking, and the underlying unspoken assumption that makes us responsible for the universe. Next week we’ll talk about some practical forms of prayer that undo this toxic assumption. Continue reading
Soul-Training: Making Peace
At first glance, making peace doesn’t appear to be a discipline for training one’s soul…
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Tending Our Souls (Introduction)
Today we lay a foundation for a series of lessons about tending the gardens of our souls. To become the kind of people other people want to be around, indeed the kind of people we ourselves want to be around, requires attentiveness to spiritual growth. In this lesson we look at why this is so, and suggest a motivation for being diligent in following the ancient spiritual paths. Continue reading
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