Category: Spiritual Formation

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Life, “under the Word”

On Oct.14.07 , In Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

My senior DCE students and I are reading and discussing Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.  This is the 20th class that I have discussed this book with and each year I find it to be such a blessing of discovery.  Bonhoeffer starts off by writing, “In the following we shall consider a number of directions and precepts [...]

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Faith Formation Across the (?) Lifespan (?)

On Oct.11.07 , In Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

I heard a true story today of a person entering into The Third Age (over 50). This person lays flat all day and needs assistance to roll over, eat, toilet….actually needs assistance for everything. This person can only communicate with grunts and noises with an occassional expression of the eyes or a small movement of [...]

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Spiritual Wellness

On Sep.28.07 , In Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

When Jesus says, “Peace be to you,” He offers wholeness and completeness.  Jesus makes us whole and complete through His acceptance and love.  The wholeness and completeness is a free gift that begins a transformative process in each aspect of our life. The transformation of the spiritual core leads to the ability to respond with [...]

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Calm Down

On Aug.25.07 , In Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

In the forty minutes I spent on the treadmill today at the gym, I watched CNN display headlines…………Iraqi government collapsing, 1.2 million Americans will forclose on their homes in the next two years, home foreclosures will bring on a worldwide recession, global warming is causing the world to self-destruct…….and on it went.  I thought to [...]

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Listen to God

On Aug.25.07 , In Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

A friend said to me the other day that he was frustrated because he kept praying and he didn’t feel that God was listening.  I said, “maybe it isn’t God who isn’t listening.”   We have this tendency to want to tell God what God should be doing.  In my mind, that is a form of [...]

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