Category: Spiritual Practice
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Give yourself 5 minutes (Day 1 of #24DaysofGiving)
You made it through a busy weekend of Thanksgiving eating and holiday shopping. And now, the countdown really begins. Burnout can take the joy out of your holiday celebration, so give yourself 5 minutes today. If you can give yourself this gift every day, it will help you give and live from your heart more fully the rest…
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24 days of giving
I have been giving some thought to how to take a more spiritually-centered approach to the holiday season. I love Christmas and gift-giving as much as anyone else, but the emphasis on consumerism feels more hollow and stressful each year. And I’ve think of those who are struggling financially, or in body, mind and spirit.…
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Unbusy
I decided to give up busyness for Lent. Fasting or refraining at Lent is traditionally about food, but it can be applied to just about any habitual behavior that creates distance between you and God. While Lent is a time of penitence, it is not meant to be about punishment. If we are disciples, we are not “giving…
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Cryptic Stars (a poem)
This, then is how I want to pray things well: for days of long evening shadow on bright dewgrass; or the metallic clatter of geese. To pray things well is the difference between an enclosure and an embrace, or whether flesh yields before stone. This, then, is why the hawks – all five of them –…
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