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First, let’s look back to the suggestion from last week about setting an alarm on you phone or watch as a “call to prayer.” Did you try that? If so, what was your experience? Did it annoy you or did … Continue reading
Category Archives: Intention on the Spiritual Journey
How might you begin to practice fixed hour prayer? You could try what a friend of mine did. He set an alarm on his phone and each day when the alarm sounded, he took a few minutes to stop what … Continue reading
You may hear “fixed hour prayer” or “daily office” or “liturgy of the hours” or “morning prayer/evening prayer” but each speaks to having appointed times during the day and night to pray. It is a regular and consistent pattern of … Continue reading
Some weeks ago (#36) I described Lectio Divina as a way of being with Scripture. You may recall that Lectio Divina is often described as having four movements: (1) Read/lectio, in which a passage is read slowly, often read several … Continue reading
Some time back a friend pointed me to a practice that combines prayer and a form of journaling. In the book Writing to God: 40 Days of Praying with my Pen Rachel Hackenberg provides writing prompts based on scripture to … Continue reading
This week my mind is still much on retreat. While a lot of my time last week at the retreat center was spent in small groups and listening to lectures, a day was set aside for silence. The leader gave … Continue reading
This week I am away from my normal routine at a retreat center attending a four day workshop on spiritual direction. This seemed a very good time to think about a practice we have not yet mentioned, retreat. Adele Ahlberg … Continue reading
As we have in these past weeks thought together about spiritual practices, I fear I have fallen into a trap that often captures us as we discuss this subject. As we focus on one practice after another we see the … Continue reading
Very often journaling is contrasted with keeping a diary. The usual comparison is that a diary is a “record of events, facts and occasions with little, if any, commentary.” A journal “records subjective responses to events in thoughts, feelings and … Continue reading
Have you ever heard of a “commonplace book”? In its simplest form it is a book you “make” that is a collection of quotes, verses, poems, drawings, sayings, even clippings. Why? Because these “things” struck you as having some worth … Continue reading