Category Archives: Retreats

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It Takes a Long Time to Grow a Salad

Lessons on Perseverance

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It takes a long, long time to make a salad like this. Let me explain. In 1997, I woke up in the middle of the night and it was, as if I heard an audible Voice telling me to get a pad a paper and to start writing. It wasn’t really audible but it was […]

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The Care of the Soul

What Soul Care looks like in today's busy world

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The care of the soul is not a program to be mastered; not an agenda to be followed; not a curriculum in which we advance. The care of the soul is a way of life—a way taught by Jesus, followed by the early church, practiced in communities in the mid centuries and almost entirely forgotten […]

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Listening to the Word

Guidelines for Deeper Listening to the Scriptures

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As moderns, we think we know how to read most books. Yet in our fast society and driven cultures, we graze over books rarely having a moment to sit with what we are reading. We think that reading the Bible through in a year will actually help us. But it’s interesting that Americans are really […]

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Read the Directions

Sabbatical Insights

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  A few days into my Sabbatical I got the worst cold I have ever had. The physical aches, pains and down right misery that a bad cold makes you feel, were the obvious outlets for the long accumulated and residual stress stored in my hidden, way down deep soul place. I was living proof […]