You’ve heard of New Year’s resolutions, and maybe you’ve even made some for this year, but have you heard of a Word of the Year?
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Tag: Wisdom
Important Traditions
Traditions are a grounding force in our ever-changing world. They help us focus on what is stable, provide certainty, and help us hold onto what is sacred.
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As we begin a new year, do you have a spiritual partner to help you go deeper in your relationship with God?
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My husband and I recently rang in the New Year with a tradition we love. Our home is opened to friends for champagne, steak, and lobster along with a game of chicken foot dominoes while watching the ball drop in Times Square.
Continue reading “Harvesting Good Things”Work In Progress
I recently read an article that gave me a thought I need to hang onto. We are all works in progress.
Because God works through all of creation, I know these words were meant for me to hear as my judgment thermometer has been on the rise. So has the scale….I wonder about the correlation?
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God has taken different forms for me over time. As the separation between me and all creation dissolves, I identify God as breath. The same Creator who breathed life into the earth still breathes within me today.
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Today, I’m putting my laziness aside and listening to the voice of God who wants my temple to be cared for the way it was intended. A body meant for movement, love, and care, not abuse, judgment, and sloth. Where my physical core, my foundation is strong and allows for stability in the rest of my body. Today, I’m breathing in life.
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We are called to have childlike faith. To achieve this, I give you one piece of advice, pray.
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Happy New Year! It’s a new year, a new day, and a fresh start for new beginnings. A time for a new mindset and waking up to what’s real. A time to focus on the wholeness of relationships with God, with myself, and with others, living integrated in body, mind, and spirit. Living a contemplative life of meaning.
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Looking for God’s Goodness in contemplation and prayer.
When we seek, we find. Today provides an exercise for you to practice flexing your finding muscle. You might find goodness in the following Thanksgiving Examen as previously published here by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
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Smitten With Goodness 