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…
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Sculpting Project 10: The 4 Minute Mile and The 4 Hour Mile: Week 1
Sculpting Project 10: The 4 Minute Mile and The 4 Hour Mile Week 1 Speed of Life Between a three-toed sloth or a school of fish in a feeding frenzy I tend to feel like the fish. I frequently sense God’s call for me to ‘Go Slowly.’ When I move more slowly my eyes open…
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 Four: Slow Bites, Week 1
Fully ripe, it has a little ‘give’ when I squeeze it. The juice flows out as I slice it open. The perfect peach. I have eaten many over my years. But today is different. Today I will attempt a feat I’ve seldom done. I will attempt to eat this perfect peach being fully here and…
Sculpting Project Three: The Jesus Prayer, Week 2
Sculpting Group: Jesus Prayer Project Week Two Sculpting Notes: The Brain and Repeated Prayer: Repetition is like creating a rut in a muddy road. When the road dries the rut is still there and we easily steer into it. When we say something over and over we build a strong pathway in the brain. Like…
Sculpting Project Three: The Jesus Prayer, Week 1
Sculpting Group: Jesus Prayer Project Week Two The Third Sculpting project: The Jesus Prayer Week 1 Repetition leads to habit, habit leads to second nature. St. Isihios It was 18 below and 12:00 midnight when Evan drove me past the bank clock. Now I’m laying in the birthing room in the last phase of contractions….