{"id":6800,"date":"2015-05-05T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T08:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2019-10-05T04:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T04:04:29","slug":"10-simple-ways-to-experience-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/sole-significance\/10-simple-ways-to-experience-life\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Powerful (But Simple) Ways to Experience Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many, a relationship with God is a powerful connection to real life.\u00a0 Healthy spirituality can connect us in healthy ways to reality.\u00a0 Healthy faith can help ground our entire lives.\u00a0 It can take the ordinary and seemingly mundane things of life and fill them with significance.\u00a0 Likewise, it can produce a sense of hope, purpose and perseverance during those difficult seasons of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The developing of any relationship is a combination of time, contact and effort.\u00a0 The effort is not an issue of earning but the natural effort that goes into genuinely getting to know another; to be available to interact, to share and journey together.\u00a0 While much talk has been given to \u201cquality\u201d time, quantity of time is important as well and what we begin to see is in even the seemingly mundane things there is a relationship developing. As we become aware this, these areas of seeming insignificance explode with meaning!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are 10 super simple ways to experience life in God every day<\/strong>.\u00a0 Remember, great faith is not just HUGE heroic acts but living heroically in the regular, day-to-day\u00a0moments. \u00a0 Mother Teresa would say small things done with great love will change the world!<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Choose to love people instead of trying to impress them.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Read and savor a poem, Psalm or listen to a favorite piece of music.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Pray for a perfect stranger.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Read a passage of scripture and resist the desire to dissect it \u2013 just enjoy it!<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Stop trying so hard. Love to the degree that you have grace for today not condemning yourself for the grace you don\u2019t have.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Sit and listen to the silence.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Watch a sunset or something beautiful.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Serve someone or a cause that you feel strongly about.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Watch young children play.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Create something \u2013 sing, write, dance, draw, paint, sculpt, cook, anything that you can express your creativity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bonus:<\/strong> Smile \u2013 Smile at people \u2013 in the grocery store, at the bank, on the street. A nice, warm smile to a complete stranger can work miracles.<\/span><\/p>\n

    There you have it<\/strong> – 10 super simple ways to experience life in God in everyday life. \u00a0 Many through history have discovered as they adopt little practices of awareness or mindfulness of the presence of God around them in everyday life, they report experiencing a deeper, more vibrant\u00a0faith, and experience life with greater peace and wonder.<\/span><\/p>\n

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