Tag: Lent

Give Kindness: Soul Sculpting 2022 Lent Week 2

Deadly Sin of the Week:   Greed: An intense and selfish desire for something. We usually know it when we see it in others. And I have to admit I have it in myself.  Like all the deadly sins, greed can be problematic for the person expressing it.  Greed is associated with negative psychological states such…

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 Find Awe, Welcome Humility: Soul Sculpting Lent 2022 Week 1

   Find Awe, Welcome Humility Soul Sculpting Project for Lent 2022 Week 1 The wind had escalated to a fierce gale and the waves began to swell and break over the boat. Water rapidly filled the boat.  Some of the men on board were expert fisherman. They knew what they were doing and they knew…

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Soul Sculpting Project: Imagining Stories to Connect with God

#7 of Seven Ancient Christian Practices for Connecting with God Soul Sculpting Project: Imagining Stories to Connect with God Pilgrimage  Jerusalem 384 AD  Egeria knew the story well. On this Holy Week in this holy city  she heard the story read again and she re-lived it. Egeria sat in a cave where Jesus had met…

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Soul Sculpting Project: Make a Tiny Location Change

Practice #6  of Seven Ancient Christian Practices for Connecting with God Soul Sculpting Project: Make a Tiny Location Change Jerusalem 384 AD  A woman of boundless curiosity.  Egeria was on an epic pilgrimage. She now knew how the color of the Atlantic waters differed from the color of the Red sea waters. She had climbed…

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Soul Sculpting: Make a Change With a Little Help From Our Friends

#5 of Seven Ancient Practices for Connecting with God Soul Sculpting: Make a Change With a Little Help From Our Friends Augustine: November13, 354 –August 28, 430 A.D. Augustine had some wild years in his younger days. We know all about them because he fessed-up in his Confessions. He began as a child pear-thief, whose crime…

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