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a slow journey through lent: day 17
Take a few deep breaths and settle down into a quiet space. Listen to this song from Psalm 19 resting with the music. See what you notice...
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shelisloterbeek
- Mar 4, 2021
- 2 min
a slow journey through lent: day 16
Today, read through the passage for the week again - Psalm 19 but in the Message version. Before you begin, ask for guidance and...
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shelisloterbeek
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
a slow journey through lent: day 15
Today we will sit with the scripture for the week, Psalm 19. Before beginning to read - take at least three deep breaths. Acknowledge the...
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shelisloterbeek
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
a slow journey through lent: day 14
Reflect back on this week with Psalm 22:22-31. Is there a particular word that you have come back to repeatedly? What is it about that...
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shelisloterbeek
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
a slow journey through lent: day 13
Today, take some time to reflect on the last 3 verses of Psalm 22. "Let all mortals - those born to die - bow down in his presence....
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
Nourishing Creation
Does it ever happen to you that you see a word, a phrase, anything really, come up over and over within a week or even just a few days? I...
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 27, 2021
- 1 min
a slow journey through lent: days 11 & 12
Today or tomorrow head over to A Quiet Space and let me guide you through a sacred reading (lectio divina) of the scripture for the week....
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
a slow journey through lent: day 10
Take a few deep breaths and settle down into a quiet space. Listen to this song based on Psalm 22 sitting with the music. See what you...
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
a slow journey through lent: day 9
Today, read through the passage for the week again (Psalm 22:22-31). Then read through Nan Merrill's interpretation of the same passage...
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 24, 2021
- 2 min
a slow journey through lent: day 8
Today we will sit with the scripture for the week, Psalm 22:22-31. Before beginning to read - take at least three deep breaths....
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
a slow journey through lent: day 6
Take a few deep breaths and try to settle down into a quiet space. Listen to this song based on Psalm 25 sitting with the music. See what...
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Invitation: a slow journey through lent
Sometimes I like things slow. Okay, I like things slow almost all of the time. (You can read about why that is here.) And sometimes I...
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
A Slow Life
"I live a slow life" I said to someone the other day. I didn't say it as an excuse or as pride - just a fact. But I wasn't always this...
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shelisloterbeek
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Take a Deep Breath...
There was a time when the only deep breaths I would take were as I sat in a doctor's office and they would place their cold stethoscope...
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shelisloterbeek
- Jan 5, 2021
- 2 min
A Different Kind of Word
Years ago I began noticing a word or a theme that would repeatedly make an appearance throughout the year. Then at some point, I heard a...
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shelisloterbeek
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
"I Will Light Candles this Christmas"
I didn't grow up celebrating Advent. In fact, if you had asked me what it was I probably would have said "it sounds Catholic" or...
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shelisloterbeek
- Oct 2, 2020
- 2 min
Desert Teachings: Holding things Loosely
I come from a lush land where things grow in the ground, sometimes even without watering them. I come from a place with four distinct,...
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shelisloterbeek
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
An Invitation: to sit with the palms
Today is Palm Sunday. The Sunday before Easter. For some that means nothing. For others it brings memories of children dancing and...
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shelisloterbeek
- Mar 10, 2020
- 2 min
Freeing Anger and Fear
Anger. Fear. These are big emotions. They take up a lot of space in our body, mind and spirit. And they seem to be winding their way in...
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shelisloterbeek
- Feb 13, 2020
- 2 min
My Story: The Slow Journey (aka #theslojourney) - Part II
For a quick recap to see what got me to part II - see part I. Since I had enrolled in a two-year program for spiritual direction, I...
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