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Simple Retreat Resources for this Summer
While my family is living in Germany, we are taking every single opportunity to travel. It is the greatest blessing of being stationed overseas and we are doing our best to embrace it. Our family has had a lot of wonderful adventures and we are looking forward to a whole lot more in the next…
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Holy Threads of Journaling
Packed away with my notes from college and seminary that I can’t bear to throw away are the journals I kept as a young girl. I was faithful in this practice. I wrote every night about all of the happenings of my life in beautiful bound books some of which had lock and key so…
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Holy Threads of the Daily Examen
I started praying the examen years ago when I was really struggling to find God in the midst of my days. It felt, then, that there was just so much to do. I didn’t have time to pause. Or reflect. Or notice a darn thing, so I needed something to look back over the course…
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Holy Threads of Lectio Divina
I have felt a desire to return to the holy, poetic words of scripture. As a preacher and a pastor, I have had the honor of struggling with these sacred words and trying to make sense of them for this present moment. It isn’t always easy and I will never be quite certain that I’ve…
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What to Bring
Alan Jones writes, “True spiritual direction is about the great infixables in human life. It’s about the mystery of moving through time. It’s about mortality. It’s about love. It’s about things that can’t be fixed.” Admittedly, this sounds terrifying. We want to be fixed. We need to be fixed but spiritual direction is not about fixing…
HOLY THREADS 