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Adeline Behm.
- Sunday October 13: Sell Your Possessions
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To Practice
- The emotional programs for happiness of power/control, safety/security, esteem/approval travel with us throughout the day and divert our gaze from the Center. Set an intention for the day to be mindful of whichever program seems particularly persistent. Note the circumstances and the conversations, whether with others or within your own mind. Do you see patterns? Can you better anticipate them as you practice this? Try this for a week.
- Before you begin Centering Prayer, take a few minutes to picture yourself with Jesus as you receive his loving gaze from deep within you, and his challenging invitation to let go of everything. Then move into your customary Centering Prayer practice. Afterwards, if you like, reflect/journal on this experience. Does it provide any new resource to take with you?
If you wish, you may reread this week’s email reflection here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2024_word-of-the-week-oct13
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Posted by Frank Pendola on October 13, 2024 at 9:21 am #148943
This week’s reflections made me aware of what a treasure it is that we have a practice that bonds us.
Having a companion who can help with discernment by listening and accompanying rather than imposing their opinion is a rare and precious thing. I have found this in our community. If my discernment had remained a solo activity, I would still be talking to myself and calling it prayer.
Thank You for The Word of The Week.
In Gratitude,
Frank Pendola
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Posted by Adeline Behm on October 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm #148999
October 14, 2024
“Picturing myself with Jesus as I receive his loving gaze from deep within.”
This took me back to a revealing exercise in one of my training sessions where wewere asked to play at the age of 6. My response was to sit on the side with a book in my lap watching everyone else do the same thing. This fit my age 6 self. For by then I had assumed a position of seeing that everyone one of my siblings was okay. If there was time I would engage in my favorite thing, reading. These days, this is my little group of ten women, years and years later.
These weeks in discussions about changes ten of us are in the process of searching for. I recall myself saying : “We can not lose anybody.” Our facilitator is the only one who hears with curiosity.
Today, Canadian Thanksgiving, the first reading from Colossians 3:12-17, we are addressed as God’s chosen, holy, beloved, with these instructions: clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, meekness and patience. Both humility and patience, my present challenges.
The Gospel from Matthew: “Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks will receive, everyone who searches will find, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”
So as this weeks continues as an introduction to C.P., with gestures, I attend, I allow, I accept, I await, consenting, to the pull of the loving gaze of Jesus, down, down, deep, down, down, deep….. allowing Jesus’ gaze to penetrate my bruised ego…. the me: chosen, holy, beloved.
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Posted by linda rhead on October 16, 2024 at 6:03 pm #149189
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Posted by Adeline Behm on October 17, 2024 at 5:57 pm #149208
The sharing during our Wednesday gathering this week was powerful!!! This phrase from lectio/visio part most revealling: “The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country and clothes. But as long as you don’t ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment.” The Welcome Prayer is leading me to a confrontation with a couple of aspects that are absolutes for my ego/ my shadow self. Already a “face to face” is relieving the pressure. I continue to be profoundly grateful to you my “WoW” community, a huge “wow”!!!
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