Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 2 Why do Centering Prayer? 1. To pursue a deeper relationship with God. Beyond words. 2. To receive the enormous variety of benefits that accompany a meditation practice. It appears to me that we were built to meditate. I get this idea when I read the results of the…
Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 1
Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 1 On a cold afternoon in February 2008 I had one of the most amazing discoveries of my life. I found a ‘mental mute button’. My mind is an out of control 2 two-year old. Racing about, pulling topics off the shelf and spilling them all over, shouting, helpless…
Sculpting Project 14: Three More Things, Review and Revise: Week 2
Sculpting Project 14: Three More Things, Review and Revise: Week 2 Simple, quick, persistent drops of transformation. Sculpting Projects are simple. Sculpting Projects are quick, not time-consuming. Sculpting Projects are powerful like continual tiny drops of water on sandstone. Sculpting projects are simple, quick and powerful enough to transform. Sculpting projects are also challenging. Very…
Sculpting Project 14: Three More Things: Review and Refine: Week 1
Sculpting Project 14: Three More Things: Review and Refine Week 1 Things I love: Skies filled with stars, hot zucchini bread, reflections on water. What do you love? What are you grateful for? These are the questions for us to ponder and record for the next two weeks. The #1 suggestion from our from our…
Sculpting Project 13: Cairns: Week 2
Sculpting Project 13: Cairns: Week 2 Benefits of journaling: Most of the studies I have found about journaling go like this: Study group: Spend 20 minutes for three constitutive days writing about a significant emotional experience in your life. Control group Spend 20 minutes for three consecutive days writing about an emotionally neutral topic (your…
Sculpting Project 13: Cairns: Week 1
Sculpting Project 13: Cairns: Week 1 When Evan and I go hiking in unfamiliar places we follow a trail. This is because we want to arrive at a particular destination and then we want to turn around and arrive back at our truck before dark. Trails are marked in various ways depending on the terrain….