Ways to Simplify Your Life: Part Three!

Slow Down (an excerpt from Inner Simplicity, by Elaine St. James) If you are wanting to make a concerted effort in some areas of your life to slow down, here’s something to consider from Elaine St. James who has walked this road.  I was surprised to discover that simplifying my life didn’t automatically mean that [...]

Ways to Simplify Your Life: Part Two!

         Part One of our series can be found here.     Lesson #2. Learn to Enjoy the Silence In order to hear what’s happening on an inner level, we have to cut back as much as possible on the external racket.  Start becoming aware of the continuously high noise levels you [...]

Ways to Simplify Your Life

Ways to Simplify Your Life (excerpts from Inner Simplicity, by Elaine St. James)   #1     Create Simplicity, Not Austerity      When I first started to let go of some of the distractions I had unthinkingly allowed to accumulate in my life and to look within, a friend said to me, “But I don’t want an [...]

How to Spend a Day Alone with God

How to Spend a Day Alone with God Adapted from The Spiritual Formation Toolkit, by Glandion Carney   8:00-9:00 a.m.    Prepare your mind and heart, take a walk or do whatever will help you set aside concerns over other tasks.  Try to arrange your morning so you can be in silence from when you first [...]

Hedge of Protection

Here is a simple visual to help the children (and adults) in your corps/church learn with clarity how to pray a prayer of protection around those they love.   Instructions: Print Hedge of Protection cards on cover-stock weight paper, cut to size. (Hedge) Print family figures on a full-sheet label.  Slice in rows, score between [...]