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Dealing with Distractions while Praying

I live in a busy household. With three sons and my wife, there are always lots of things going on which can make getting some quiet prayer time a bit of a challenge. I prefer a quiet time in the early morning - it helps me start the day well, focused and with purpose. Obviously,…

If you are like me, you have times of prayer where your thoughts are all over the map! “Our Father, who art in heaven,... what should we have for dinner tonight? hallowed be your name... oh, I have to get that contract signed...” Prayer distractions seem to be a chronic issue in the prayer lives…

This video with Jim Martin SJ provides a brief introduction to Ignatian style of prayer called Contemplation. This is a rich, creative and very powerful way to experience God in prayer through the scriptures. Martin describes in very simple terms how we can enter into the stories of the Gospel using our imagination and gain a greater…

April 20, 2012
Change is a Process

As leaders, we need to come to grips with the fact that everything is in a process of change continually; as we live life, build, create, sell or renovate things are changing. Even when things are left alone, the reality is they too change, they decay, time has a way of changing everything! To come to grips with this helps us Continue Reading...
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May 19, 2011
Does Self-awareness make us Prideful?

How we respond to God and others is greatly impacted by how we see ourselves. Often folks misunderstand the idea of self-awareness. They mistakenly believe self-awareness to be self-centred, selfish and arrogant. Healthy self-awareness is something quite different.I remember the first time I heard the concept of self-awareness. From my fundi-evangelical worldview, it brought up images of hippies and psycho-babel. Continue Reading...
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March 1, 2016
Can’t Buy the Kingdom of God

There is a virus that seeks to hijack healthy spirituality. In effect, it makes not only our faith very small, but it makes us smaller as people. The difficulty is that this virus masquerades as a form of godliness, and it works it's toxicity subtlely at first, and before we know it, we are scratching our heads wondering why we Continue Reading...
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