Year: 1211 It was not a rash choice. Clare had been watching with fascination as several young men from her small town left their comfortable homes to join Francis in an uncomfortable, radical new way of following God. On the evening of Palm Sunday, Clare snuck out a side door of her family’s mansion and…
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The Process of Ordinary Art: Soul Sculpting Project:
I remember a morning sitting near Delicate Arch in Utah, attempting to capture it on paper with watercolor. A young teen girl walked by me and asked in wonder, “Are you a real artist?!” “Yes,” I said, “just like you.” – She smiled. I am under the opinion that all of us are real artists….
Prayer Projects to Deepen Our Connection with God: 3: Praying With Our Body
The guys would crowd around the upstairs window and look down in the courtyard to watch him while he prayed. His prayer time looked more like a work-out. This ‘athlete of Christ’ prayed with his whole body. He would throw his arms straight up and become an arrow shooting to God. Then he would sprawl…
Take a 2 1/2 Minute Forest Bath: Soul Sculpting Project
I recently took my first walk in a pine forest. I have walked through lots of pine forests, but never intentionally in one. I have considered an evergreen forest to be just something that blocks my view. I took my intentional pine forest walk because I’ve been learning a few things lately about evergreen forests…
A little Intentional Quiet: Soul Sculpting Project
Sometimes I walk on winter days when the snow absorbs so much sound that the silence is palatable. When I stand still all I can hear is a bird pushing its wings against the air above me. In the late fall I walk in the aspens. All summer long the birds and leaves spend their…
A Tiny Launch Out of Lazy: Soul Sculpting Project Lent Week 7
Sloth is a complicated sin. In the 7 Deadly Sin List it originally came under the word acedia.That’s a word we don’t even use any more Acedia is related to tedium, melancholy, joylessness, discontent, and apathy. Particularly apathy towards the spiritual life. Theologian Thomas Aquinas called acedia a “sluggishness of the mind which neglects to…
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