Desiring To Love God

Working again with Adele Calhoun, The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook and Richard Foster: The Spirit of the Disciplines: Desiring to make my life redemptive and life giving, allowing me to teach others and share my faith… and knowing that God is a communicating God and that he has used words to communicate to human beings since …

Fasting: Lent

Vow to get started: (Calhoun & Foster) Working with the assumption that fasting(s) of various kinds and duration were practiced by Jesus and are normative to the spiritual growth of the people of God, and feeling led to deepen my Lenten practice by cooperating with the person and work of the Holy Spirit in the …

Solitude : Lent

Henry Nouwen (The Way of the Heart) on solitude: In solitude we get rid of the scaffolding of our lives: no noise, no people, just vulnerable, weak me. Solitude is the furnace in which the transformation of our compulsive self occurs. Thus we seek solitude as an aspect of an overall plan to deal with …

Lenten Journey into a Holy Observance

Working with Adele Calhoun (The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook), for my Lenten journey into a holy observance, I desire periods silence to free myself from the addiction to, and distraction of noise; I pursue silence as a regenerative practice of attending to and listening to God; I do so trusting the testimony of scripture that there is …