Walking the Passage: Session 1 of Stirring the Waters: Cultivating A Lifestyle after the Heart of God

Monday, April 28, 2014

Session 1 of Stirring the Waters: Cultivating A Lifestyle after the Heart of God

My heart is so full.

What a beautiful experience to be walking this journey with you all.

Here is the link to the video of today's class.

http://youtu.be/ovwpE0DUv-E

A book list of the books we talked about:

Brother Lawrence ... Practicing the Presence of God

Frank Laubach ... Letter by a Modern Mystic and Learning the Vocabulary of God

Ronald Rolheiser.. The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality

Henri Nouwen .. The Inner Voice of Love, The wounded Healer, The Way of the Heart

Malcolm Gladwell.. David and Goliath: Underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants

Pick up a journal and begin today The Game of Minutes as Laubach teaches... Filling Every Minute with the Thought of God. He says; "All who have tried that kind of abiding for a month know the power of it -- it is like being born again from center to circumference."

next week we will talk about the Voice of the Ancients... But I want you to be thinking of YOUR voice, of the things the Lord teaches you, of how He personally instructs you.. How you hear and interact with Him the most... Would love if you came to class with something you would feel comfortable sharing... Feel free to comment on the STW Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stir-The-Water/24550022054?ref=hl

Look forward to being together again next week

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.