I am currently writing this post while eating waffles and ice cream and thanking the good Lord that I didn’t have to fast from food this past week. Now besides being insanely jealous of my breakfast you are probably also wondering how I fasted if I didn’t give up food. Our traditional view on fasting…
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Retreat
This week was a quiet one…because it was my week of silence. This was the one discipline that I was probably most anxious about because I have almost no experience with it. However I endeavoured to give it a try anyways. I did not take a vow of silence (like Maria in The Sound of…
Return
worship noun The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration towards God prayer noun a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God These are the two spiritual disciplines that I focused on this past week. While they are in fact two separate disciplines, for me they are so entwined that…
Refocus
This past week marked the beginning of my month long endeavour of trying out different spiritual disciplines. The first discipline that I attempted was that of meditation. The word meditation is bound to conjure up very similar images for most people… monks sitting cross legged on a stone by a river, yogis chanting “ohm” for…
