Living the Contradictions
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Discernment
You see what you’re looking for
From “Listen To Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention” by Paul Angone The lesson of we see what we’re looking for is a profound one. What if we applied these principles not to our marketing strategies but to the way we live and see our day, every day. How can we use this
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the sacred compass that God provides
From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Discovering spiritual direction is simple – but in an amazingly countercultural and counterintuitive way. It is about heeding the Holy Spirit. Learning to follow the divine compass means stopping and paying attention instead of looking for a magical map with the shortest route
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A frightening freedom
From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Within the churches there are as many opinions and visions as outside the churches. There is no virtue that is not called sin somewhere, and no particular sin that is not called virtue somewhere else. Within
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through an uncluttered mind
From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Howard Thurman believed that a place deep within us yearns for moments of quiet serenity. Silence, stillness, and solitude: in our noise-filled lives, these bring peace, heal, strengthen, and facilitate spiritual growth. This belief is shared among mystics of
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Those interconnections nurture great ideas
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson A metropolis shares one key characteristic with the Web: both environments are dense, liquid networks where information easily flows along multiple unpredictable paths. Those interconnections nurture great ideas, because most great ideas come into the world half-baked, more hunch than revelation.
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Remember
From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner WHEN YOU REMEMBER me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind
trying to recover and reclaim the gift we once possessed
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer We arrive in this world with birthright gifts – then we spend the first half of our lives abandoning them or letting others disabuse us of them. As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to
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The Undivided Life
From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby A powerful line from Palmer’s book A Hidden Wholeness retained with me on that journey: “We arrive in this world undivided, integral, whole,” he wrote. “But sooner or later, we erect a wall between our inner and outer
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The Question
From “Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most” by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz Is life more like poker or more like war? How much maneuvering room do the “rules” of life give us? It’s hard to say. There are serious arguments on both sides. But regardless of where on the