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From Soul Nourishing Resources, to Event Re-Caps, Musings, Teachings, and more, The Blog is an abundant source of inspiration and information for you to explore.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Praying in Colour
Praying in Colour is an activity that engages a similar flow state as we intentionally turn off our 'doing' mode, and turn on our 'listening' mode of prayer. Doodling as you pray, creating shapes and patterns, filling them in with colours, gives you something to do with your hands, body, and eyes, while you practice silent listening with God.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Prayer of Lament
Life.
Sometimes, it feels like life is happening with us and for us and it feels full of joy and freedom and love and goodness.
Other times, it feels like life is happening against or without us and it feels full of grief, sadness, being alone, feeling rejected or left behind.
The unexpected twists and turns, the best laid plans falling apart before our eyes, and learning to navigate a world that we have limited control over can lead us to a desire to cry out to God with questions, tears, and deep sighs of exasperation over the suffering we are experiencing.
Soul Nourishing Practice: Prayer of Repetition
“Prayer of Repetition is like a seasoned fisherman who knows he can go back time and time again to a good fishing hole and find fish. The spot never seems to empty of good fish, and he gets a new one every time.”
…I mean, I don’t eat fish, but I can appreciate the sentiment. Perhaps, we swap out fishing holes with a strawberry, tomato, or cucumber plant in your garden that keeps producing fresh produce for you every time you go and look…
Soul Nourishing Practice: Praying Scripture
A quick Google search of ‘the benefits of praying scripture’ will bring you lists upon lists from people who have engaged in this practice and how found it to be beneficial. One of the ways praying scripture is beneficial is for the portion of Philippians 4:8 that says “...if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart].” When we pray through scripture, we are internalizing the living word of God in our minds and in our hearts.