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Examen of Consciousness
This is such an important practice. I hope you have a listen. When our view of God changes, our view of prayer changes. Many simply stop praying… stop having a devotional habit. But that’s just not good for our souls. Better is to go back through history and find ways of “prayer” that feed us in our newly-emerging way of thinking about God. Examen is one of those ancient ways. Continue reading
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The Clutch of Death (part 3)
Today we continue our lesson “The Clutch of Death.” We’ve seen how we tend to clutch at people, things, and circumstances at the expense of our freedom and connecting to our truest, Divine selves.
We do this because our “Life-Stories,” the narratives that drive our instincts, actions and reactions are faulty. They drive us, compel us, but don’t purchase us freedom.
At the core of the “ultimacy” stories, is what we believe about God. Even if we don’t believe there is a God, God (or the absence of God) figures heavily in our framing narratives about “The Way Things Are.”
If our view of God was rooted in a childhood world of magic, or parents… if our view of God is tainted by an absent father, a demanding coach, or some other faulty projection, we pollute our Stories, and our freedom, our peace, our well-being is stolen away.
So…
In this lesson, I ask you to spend some time thinking about what you think about God. What do you believe about God? What instincts kick in when you try and access God? Continue reading
Advent 2010: Failure? There Is No Stinking Failure!
I teach my kids all the time that they cannot not fail in life. I tell them they will embarrass themselves. They will shame themselves. They will fall into something they can’t believe they’ve fallen into.
The measure of your soul isn’t how well you avoid failure and sin. It’s what you do next. Continue reading
Reconsidering Prayer (part 5)
“The discipline of casualness…”
That sounds contradictory doesn’t it?
But it’s the very foundation of this different kind of prayer we’ve been talking about. Continue reading