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Continue reading →: ★ About Spiritual Direction
What is Spiritual Direction? Spiritual direction is a ministry of listening, of walking with an individual on their life journey. It includes learning more about spiritual disciplines. God wants us to have joyful, abundant lives. Spiritual disciplines better equip us for living our lives fully. In spiritual direction, the director…
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Continue reading →: About Spiritual Direction
What is Spiritual Direction? Spiritual direction is a ministry of listening, of walking with an individual on their life journey. It includes learning more about spiritual disciplines. God wants us to have joyful, abundant lives. Spiritual disciplines better equip us for living our lives fully. In spiritual direction, the director…
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Continue reading →: ★ EC 05 Takeaways
Random notes on things I am taking away from Emergent Convention 05: I really enjoy Tony Jones’ new book, The Sacred Way. It’s essentially an overview of ancient spiritual practices told simply, easily and is a book I don’t have to have my highlighter handy for. I value that. I…
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Continue reading →: EC 05 Takeaways
Random notes on things I am taking away from Emergent Convention 05: I really enjoy Tony Jones’ new book, The Sacred Way. It’s essentially an overview of ancient spiritual practices told simply, easily and is a book I don’t have to have my highlighter handy for. I value that. I…
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Continue reading →: ★ Titleating
I’m not sure how to really spell that, but… I am considering changing the name of this blog. It used to be, way back in the early days of the blogosphere (like pre-2004), that people changed their blog titles all the time. Doesn’t seem to happen anymore. But in my…
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Continue reading →: Titleating
I’m not sure how to really spell that, but… I am considering changing the name of this blog. It used to be, way back in the early days of the blogosphere (like pre-2004), that people changed their blog titles all the time. Doesn’t seem to happen anymore. But in my…
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Continue reading →: ★ Lenten challenge
I challenged the rest of our church today to consider the discipline of fasting during Lent in order to make more room to practice the discipline of presence (being attentive, listening, honoring others, hearing their story). We had fun with apples today too, and had communion with potato bread and…
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Continue reading →: Lenten challenge
I challenged the rest of our church today to consider the discipline of fasting during Lent in order to make more room to practice the discipline of presence (being attentive, listening, honoring others, hearing their story). We had fun with apples today too, and had communion with potato bread and…
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Continue reading →: ★ Nursemaid
(Thanks for the title of this post to the flickr commenter who used that word). My poor dogs. Sometimes i think their entire life with a 2-year-old is one “What the hell is going on now” moment after another.
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Continue reading →: Nursemaid
(Thanks for the title of this post to the flickr commenter who used that word). My poor dogs. Sometimes i think their entire life with a 2-year-old is one “What the hell is going on now” moment after another.
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I’m Pat
Passionate about the common good, human flourishing, lifelong learning, being a good ancestor.
Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
Powerlifter, mountain biker, Gonzaga basketball fan, reader, urban sketcher, hiker.
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