A little check in… how is everyone doing? Maybe you need a moment to tend to your nervous system, like I do.
Deep breath, in the nose and out the mouth.
Unclench the jaw.
Notice areas of tension.
What most wants your attention right now?
What are your body sensations and feelings saying?
Where can you send compassion?
How can you stay with yourself in this moment?
Anyone looking for a simple, soulful Lenten practice? The season begins in less than two weeks on Wednesday, March 5.
This will be my fourth year of inviting folks into my favorite Lenten practice: every day sit outside (or near a window) and spend ten minutes looking for birds. That’s it.
You’re all invited.
MLK wrote his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspaper scraps.
AW Tozer wrote the entire first draft of “The Pursuit of God” in one sitting on a train ride.
Bonhoeffer wrote “Life Together” in an underground seminary hiding from Nazis.
Mandela wrote hundreds-upon-hundreds of pages worth of published letters during his 27 years of imprisonment.
C.S. Lewis hosted a live radio broadcast during World War II that was later converted into “Mere Christianity.”
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