Tag: prayer
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How to prevent spiritual erosion during the holidays
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I’m spending the week on the coast of North Carolina with my family for Thanksgiving. I love being with friends and family, but it takes its toll on my spiritual life. It’s hard to maintain my normal rhythm of prayer and meditation. I hear many who meet with me for spiritual…
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A mystical message from a pop song of the 70’s
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It was a year of sadness. But it was also a year when Mary spoke to me in a most unlikely way – through a pop song of the 1970’s. First the sadness. I felt stuck in my old job. I had been a general manager for a division of a…
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What makes God the best listener?
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“That’s how God listens to us.” Fr. Robert Presuttie said this during the half-day retreat at Divine Mercy University. The curious statement caught my attention. The retreat was tucked away in a five-day spiritual direction residency devoted to practicing listening skills. Each day the students would practice role-playing different scenarios that…
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A new delight in icon gazing
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I’ve been practicing something called ‘icon gazing’. In ancient times, it was called visio divina. Similar to lectio divina, which could mean ‘spiritual reading’, visio divina is ‘spiritual gazing’. The practice is basic. Select an icon that might be speaking to the circumstances of your life. Gaze at the image…
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Lord, open the eyes of my heart
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What’s a prayer you can say each morning that will change your outlook on life?
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I give you a new command: listen
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How can good listening skills improve our ability to listen to God?
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Spiritual entropy: What is it & how to reverse it.
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Entropy is the tendency of all things from order toward disorder. How do I keep this from occuring in my spiritual life?
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The Discipline of Prayer
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God provided the perfect focal point for prayer: a peephole to the heavens!