ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary for February 7, 2021
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Dear Folks -
This week in Ordinary Life we introduced our decision to take a “deep dive” into the matter of “spiritual practice.” We are using the text in Christian Scripture known as “The Lord’s Prayer” to provide guidance for this. A question raised in the talk is “how do we consciously and deliberately live our lived in Sacred Mystery?” One basic rule for spiritual practice is to assume that we are not awake. Spiritual practice involves a willingness to step out of our current understandings and be willing to embrace paradox and contradiction. The spiritual path involves simplicity, complexity, perplexity and harmony. We called the time -
Praying Naked
That is a very brief summary of our time in Ordinary Life this week. This is one of those weeks where the text and the audio are different and where viewing the presentation slides is helpful.
You can find the text we had in front of us, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.
Also, be aware that we have instituted a weekly podcast. It is called “In Between.” You can access this through the Ordinary Life website.
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If you are reading this, I want you to know how grateful I am for and to you.
Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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