Sunday January 7: Each of Us is Manifesting God

To Practice

• Pray these passages again in the manner of Lectio Divina, speaking them out loud to engage your senses and affirm them in your being. What do you hear for your journey now? If you haven’t done so, you are also invited to ponder an intention for your spiritual journey in 2024.
• If you would like a way to practice love in your life, you may wish to take the self-guided, on-demand version of the e-course, “Utmost Charity: A Call to Deeper Love.” You may read more about this course and sign-up here. Scholarships are available here.
• If you are interested in being part of the writing team for the Word of the Week (WoW) program, or to rotate as a facilitator of one of the live WoW Centering Prayer groups, please email Pamela Begeman for more information.

You may re-read the full Sunday reflection here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/word-of-the-week-jan7

Nuggets from my soul-ness this week: 1) there is a setting-out time and there is a time returning by another way i.e. consenting to the Holy Spirit so that my real Self  embraces my little self  nurturing its letting -go of false desires. My ego has honed the planner me, the scripted me. This coming year, returning my another way is trusting the non-planner, the Holy Spirit. The felt sense of this has no words that fit an explanation 2) I touched the ising wave of God this week through following the movement of my breath. I experience this ising wave before/after the Welcome prayer. My breath has become my reset-button, so to speak.3) Recently my dreaming uploading time is followed by the Welcome prayer several times in synch with the ising wave of God and my breathing, receiving and letting go. The dream images vanish as I move into wakefulness. The ising wave of God is cleaning out the junk weighing me down somewhere deep in what I call my engine room. Perhaps 30 years ago my grandmother who died when I was 8 in a dream left me a gift in this engine room of mine. In real life special people with special training go down into the furnace room of a building. My credentials have been slowly developing  by consenting to the presence and action of the Indwelling Spirit. There is a more conscious and new awareness of setting out by another way.

 

 

 

Father Keating’s invitation to cultivate becoming unified/identified with God, and to all ow myself to be convinced God loves me, has come forth as a two-track course for 2024. Both tracks can be nurtured with my daily centering prayer practice, coupled with just doing my daily tasks with as much love as I can muster. <3 linda

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