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Friday, March 25, 2011

Friday Five: Spiritual Practices

Image: Austin Garrett Ward, Expressive Theology

My Sunday school class has hit the "pause" button on our study of First Corinthians and is spending Lent on Richard J. Foster's classic Celebration of Discipline. I have had this wonderful and very readable book on my shelf, along with the study guide for it, for years, but have never discussed it with a group.

Because there are only five Sundays in Lent, we are fairly galloping through the book, getting a quick introduction to the various disciplines. The church is also sponsoring a Lenten Centering Prayer group, allowing some of us to sample this discipline in community.

Following the image above, I like to think of the spiritual disciplines as vessels that prepare us to ride the wave of God's amazing love and presence in a new way.

For today's Friday Five, please share with us five spiritual practices or disciplines from your experience. They can be ones that you have tried and kept up with, tried and NOT kept up with, ones that you flirt with at various times, or even practices that you have tried and found are definitely NOT your cup of tea. Let us know what's worked for you...and not.

If you blog about this, do share your thoughts and a link in the comments. You'll use this handy line of characters to do it...<a href="the url of your blog post goes here">what you want the link to say goes here</a>

For a complete how-to, click here.

(The Disciplines as outlined by Foster can be found here.)

25 comments:

  1. Thanks for hosting Mary Beth. I played before jumping in the vehicle to practice #4 in my list, here.

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  2. Beginning the day with the spiritual practice of blogging here.

    BTW, there is a small thingy missing at the beginning of the how-to-to-a-link example.

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  3. How to DO a link. Sigh. Too hard to do it the first time; not even gonna think about a re-try.

    Word verification: fockint!

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  4. The link thing-y should be all better now.

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  5. I played...come see why the Book of Tobit is involved... :-)

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  6. whoops, sorry! Thanks, SB. Link away, folks!

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  7. I rambled on about spiritual practices here.

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  8. played

    and i've only had one cuppa joe yet... time to refill!

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  9. currently it's the desert again,but after all, it's Lent again!

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  10. Here are my thoughts on sustaining the things that sustain us.

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  11. I'm here late cuz the first time I tried to write there was screaming. And the daily out to do stuff...but I was thinking. And then I couldn't get the comment up cuz I had all these lovely posts up to read at the same time.

    Blessings.

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  12. You can read about a few of my experiences here

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  15. I played, but don't stop by if you're looking for something encouraging. Blah, now I feel like a downer!

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  16. Ooh...good question that required some thought. I played here!

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  17. Almost made it on Friday, it's still Friday on the west coast, right?

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  18. It's still Friday somewhere... here's mine! Thanks, Mary Beth!

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  19. I practiced over at signs-along-the-way.

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