The Deep-Down-Things
A recent episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds highlights the compass of our inner movements and emotions, pointing to our true selves.
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Tag: feelings
Feelings and Emotions: Be Curious in Prayer
Ignatius tells us that feelings are important guides in the spiritual life. How do we discern what feelings are telling us? How do we know they are leading us to God? Be curious.
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Noticing: The Heart of Spiritual Maturity
Key to Ignatian spirituality is awareness, noticing. When we notice the details about our life and surroundings, we get to encounter God.
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God Moments: Discernment
An excerpt on discernment and the importance of feelings, from my new book, God Moments: Unexpected Encounters in the Ordinary.
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Three Spiritual Signals: Desires, Feelings, and Challenges
Each day our desires come face to face with challenges, and the mess of feelings in the middle doesn’t make the spiritual life any easier. Yet these three things are important to pay attention to.
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Praying With Your Life
Healing and redemption is a cooperative process with God. We can’t just wish away negative feelings. We must first invite God into them.
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Saber and Sentir: The Challenges of Knowing
There are two ways of knowing and in prayer it should be more about the heart than the head.
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Theology of Coffee
Bringing contemplative prayer to our coffee ritual. Yes please.
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Examen – Week 3
Prayer through reflection; what our feelings tell us
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Prayer of the Senses
Guidance on centring prayer using the senses of touch, hearing, and seeing.
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Another Story from the Bar
An experience at a speakeasy put me in touch with the spirituality of the senses, all five of them.
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Playback Theatre
Playback theatre is an innovative form of non-comedic improv that can be used for healing, compassion, and community.
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New Advent Meditation
Kids Journal
This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.
