Even though I'm offering lots of spiritual practices and ideas on this blog, I invite you to pick one, stick with it for a while, go deep with it. Practice praying for the month. (Imagine the fun you'll have when people ask, "How are you? What have you been up to?" and you can answer, "I've been practicing prayer.")
Or really dig into lectio divina for a while. Sit with a poem or scripture for a couple of mornings. Really let it speak to you. Let it come alive in your heart and body. Or start a daily gratitude journal, or send a letter of gratitude to someone every day. Or go back to the opening post in this series, and re-read the article about our Unitarian Transcendentalist forebears, and how they engaged in many of these practices, as a way to grow and cultivate their souls. Get inspired by them, and pick a practice. Stick with it. Go deep.
I'm curious - what are you practicing? What's your discipline? How's it going?
2 comments:
Justin, I came across the following visual - The Tree of Contemplative Practices - at http://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree.html.
I have chosen to do "tonglen" this month, but there's a lot of good ones to choose from. I had an idea to choose one from each category, as a "stretch goal", to practice. I don't know if I will have time to do them all well but it feels good to think about as a growth opportunity.
Thanks for sharing this, Eric.
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