Most days something happens that I can say "Aha! This is the topic for my blog today!" But today and yesterday so much happened, and nothing leapt out at me. I was tempted to say - "Well, I'm not writing until something pops up!" but part of writing this blog is the discipline of just writing.
So when I was looking at my e-mails, I found a book review based on the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius Loyola - a monk who lived about 500 years ago. The exercises are not for cissies! The book review says that you need to devote 50-75 minutes a day, 7 days a week for about 9 months to them. But at the end you will have encountered and developed a depper relationship with Jesus. The review says
"If you hunger for something deeper, yearn to walk with Jesus (not just read about him), and desire to embrace more of what God is doing in and through you, then this is the book for you."
Sunday is Pentecost Sunday and in the evening we are holding a "Healing Space" as we welcome John Roberts back into Ministry at St Matthews. These are both events when we look at renewal and the ability for new things to grow out of something that is old - the old covenant, the old hurts at St Matthews. And I feel there is so much of "old" in my spiritual life that needs to be renewed. My life is really good right now - and I'm finding it easy to forget the spiritual disciplines that sustain me when times are hard.
So maybe this book is my "Aha!" moment - not even that I need to buy the book, but that I need to "embrace more of what God is doing in and through me." I think I'll pre-order the book and enjoy what Jesus has in store for me.
So when I was looking at my e-mails, I found a book review based on the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius Loyola - a monk who lived about 500 years ago. The exercises are not for cissies! The book review says that you need to devote 50-75 minutes a day, 7 days a week for about 9 months to them. But at the end you will have encountered and developed a depper relationship with Jesus. The review says
"If you hunger for something deeper, yearn to walk with Jesus (not just read about him), and desire to embrace more of what God is doing in and through you, then this is the book for you."
Sunday is Pentecost Sunday and in the evening we are holding a "Healing Space" as we welcome John Roberts back into Ministry at St Matthews. These are both events when we look at renewal and the ability for new things to grow out of something that is old - the old covenant, the old hurts at St Matthews. And I feel there is so much of "old" in my spiritual life that needs to be renewed. My life is really good right now - and I'm finding it easy to forget the spiritual disciplines that sustain me when times are hard.
So maybe this book is my "Aha!" moment - not even that I need to buy the book, but that I need to "embrace more of what God is doing in and through me." I think I'll pre-order the book and enjoy what Jesus has in store for me.
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