Category Archives: Growing Deeper

Resources for cultivating a life-long journey of a deeply personal relationship with God and more meaningful relationships with others. Rooted deeply in a paradigm of love and acceptance, you continue in your unique Spirit-inspired spiritual / faith journey. Employing the insights of ancient and contemporary thinkers, poets, prophets and sages, you are provided with tools to develop your own unique relationship with God in a way that encourages healthy faith in the day to day of real life. Discovering abundant life and meaning which is consistent with who you were created to be.

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Prelude to Deeper Life: Vulnerability

Prelude to Deeper Life: Vulnerability
From my personal blog: LivingLoved-blog.com I find myself continuing to reflect on vulnerability.  Earlier this week I asked some friends for their thoughts about what vulnerability is and these are a few of their responses: leaving your emotional/physical/mental well being open to growth as well as pain Dropping your protective walls… leaving oneself open to…
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Deeper Life: Vulnerability

Deeper Life: Vulnerability
It is true of most human beings - to be loved, to be accepted as they are, and yet nothing is as elusive.   To be loved and accepted to the degree requires vulnerability and any one who has risked beyond the superficiality of the masks we use to conceal our true selves knows it can…
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Intro to the Love Paradigm

Intro to the Love Paradigm
The Love Paradigm is like a new set of eye glasses that alter slightly the way we see things.  Worldview can be defined as a collection of intellectual, emotional and / or spiritual paradigms that are based upon beliefs about the world, about reality, about truth.  These paradigms are like a skeletal system (gives organization…
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Prayer: Ignation Contemplation

Prayer: Ignation Contemplation
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…
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Rikers Song: An Ode to Child-like Faith

Rikers Song: An Ode to Child-like Faith
(First Game) Daddy…  what’s going on? Daddy who are all the faces? I’m not so sure about this Daddy but I’m sure about you. So many children, Daddy. I’ve never played soccer, Daddy. I’m not sure about this Daddy but I am sure about you. So I will stay with you, just for a while.…
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Motivating Employees with Meaning

Motivating Employees with Meaning
Motivating employees can be a challenge!  Whether they receive a pay cheque or volunteer, it is important to help your team understand why what they do is important or meaningful.  This sense of meaning can go a long way to increasing productivity, improve employee/volunteer retention and loyalty. Adam Grant, a Wharton management professor, demonstrates this…
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Faith of the Everyday

Faith of the Everyday
  Once upon a time, there were two carpenters; framers to be precise. Each day they would arrive at the building site to pound nails, erect walls. The first, a glum man, was asked what he was doing. “I hammer nails,” he replied, looking sour. “Every day, hammer nails and more nails. Day in, day…
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Personal Experience Matters in the Long Run

Personal Experience Matters in the Long Run
A modern parable: Filbert was a dog who lived in a small prairie town.   He was a good and happy dog who had a good family that treated him very well.  One day he was rolling in the grass when out of the corner of his eye he saw the biggest rabbit he had ever…
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Seeing in new ways! Experiencing God

Many of us long for more of God and we seem to have that desire deeply embedded in us and this longing can manifest as a sense of being disconnected or like something is out of alignment.  The truth is humanity was designed and created for authentic and healthy relationship with God our creator.  We…
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Faith or Certainty

Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast (Archive) -  Is God angry when we have doubts?  Can doubt be a part of healthy faith?  Today the guys talk about our definitions of faith, and how many of them limit our growth in Christ. Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus is a radio podcast…
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