There is an incredibly powerful prayer practice in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola called the Prayer of Examen. While the Ignatian examen has been interpreted and applied in various ways, I have found that looking closely at the origin of the practice and developing my own variation of the examen has had a tremendous effect…
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An Ambulance Prayer
Teachers can learn a lot from their students. When I was a first-year teacher in Pensacola, Florida–a city entrenched in the Bible Belt–I learned a lot about prayer from my middle schoolers often at the most unexpected times. They were taking a test the first time I saw it happen. We were fifteen minutes into…
A Runner’s Lectio Divina
The season of Easter is also the season of running. Each weekend during the Spring, marathon runners take to the streets prove to themselves they can run the race. Even the Boston Marathon, which occurs on the third Monday of April each year, often falls near Easter. Easter is a perfect time to connect the…
Sometimes the Possible Is Ok
So I’ve been checking out some young entrepreneurial “bucket lists” on some personal development blogs and it really had me thinking. At first I got really excited. I created an Evernote note to start brainstorming. These lists are inspiring! At first I wrote down things like paying off the mortgage, putting our kids through college,…
From Goal-Setting to Habit-Setting
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about goal-setting lately. I want to make sure my goals for 2012 are as motivating as possible. It is just that time of year. People are reassessing last year’s goals and setting new ones. They are making new year’s resolutions to make changes in their lives. Almost a…
