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Practice resting in the heart of God on the good days so you can make your way home to the Prince of Peace in the middle of your hurricanes.
10 Minutes of Stillness is a modern, accessible version of the Sacrament of the Present Moment.
In Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town, Emily who died in childbirth was given the gift of going back to spend one full day with her family. After the day is over, she sobs as she tells the stage manager, "We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed...do any human beings ever realize life while they live it, every, every minute?
Stage Manager answers, "No, the saints and poets, maybe--they do some."
At its most basic, 10 Minutes of Stillness is an invitation to realize life while we live it. A way back to wonder. That's what this episode is about.
And as Mary Oliver pointed out, it's the perfect practice for your summer day.
"My anxiety was so debilitating I needed an on-ramp for gratitude. Anxiety had caught me by the ankles. My brain couldn't make the leap from fear to praise.
But, I could sit down beside the playground while the kids ran from slide to slide and run my fingers through the grass. I could sit down and open my ears to the creaking of the swing as my little girl pumped her legs. I could lie back and watch one puff of cloud make its way slowly across the sky."
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The continual prayer of the heart, the ancient Jesus Prayer, gives us the opportunity to turn our deep need toward God, one repetition at a time.
In this episode we root breath prayer firmly in the Christian tradition, from the gospels to the early church fathers. And in the meantime, we walk in the sandals of the blind man, learning to cry out, "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," ourselves.
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What happens when the Spirit invites us to meditate on scripture? Transformation.Two stories. One invitation.
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How do we hold onto the hand of God through life's storms?
I share personal stories, share answers from our Presence Project Community and ask questions about how we look at suffering as Christians. Finally, I share a simple but effective form of breath prayer we can weave through our busy lives.
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Why attachment theory and bonding is a helpful companion on this journey and what happens to our brain when we feed it on repetition.
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Why is brain science a good traveling journey on the road to rooting and establishing in God's love?
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This first episode introduces the scaffolding of the Presence Project:
my story, God's story, and the questions we'll be answering in each episode including: How do we learn to abide and attach to God so securely everything else flows from that place of knowing we are God's beloved.
Each episode will include a simple Christian practice, designed to encourage us to rest in God's love. In this episode, I'll introduce an embarrassingly simple, but beautifully effective version of breath prayer.
The Presence Project is simple repeatable tools, ancient contemplative practices, and modern brain science.
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