Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 1

Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 1 Macrina is softly snoring as she lays on the shearing table. She wakes from time to time suggesting I should give her another bite of grain and then settles down to rest some more. Shearing is a slow process at my house. I use care and a good…

Sculpting Project Six: The Gift of Breath: Week 2

Sculpting Project Six: The Gift of Breath Week 2 Sneeze, sniff. I sit down to do my Centering Prayer Project. I can’t seem to settle into the quiet of this prayer method. Sniff. Sure, I have a cold but I don’t feel that badly. “Why is Centering Prayer so hard today?” That was the day…

Sculpting Project Six: The Gift of Breath: Week 1

Question: What is the #1 tool in most people’s sculpting tool box? Answer: Breath Why? 1. It is always available, whether we are resting or running. 2. It is easy to use. 3. It is a powerful link between our thoughts and feelings, and our body. Breath has been a sculpting tool used by Christians…

Sculpting Project Five: Day of Kindness, Week 2

Sculpting Project Five: Day of Kindness Week 2 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people clothe yourself with . . . kindness. . .” Col. 3:12 “Love is . . . kind.” 1 Cor. 13:4 “ Be Kind . . . to one another . . .” Eph. 4:32 Question: Do we keep on doing sculpting projects…

Sculpting Project Five: Day of Kindness Week 1

Sculpting Project Five Day of Kindness Week 1 We haul water for our garden and animals. 25 Cents for 64 gallons. Today I found a nickel sitting on the ledge under the coin slot. This had never happened before. My thinker got going and kind action #1 happened. I took the nickel (which jams the…