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Thursday, July 24, 2008
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I am going for this Journey
IF YOU ARE ...
- seeking to pursue an intentional inner heart transformation
- looking for a deeper journey of the heart in your discipleship process
- desiring greater understanding and practice of spiritual growth in cooperation with the Holy Spirit
- yearning for a safe community to interact with and to process your soulwork
(Soulwork includes a guided interaction with the Holy Spirit through disciplines of lectures, prayer projects, reading, group spiritual direction, one-on-one spiritual direction and personal retreat)
AND YOU CAN…
- invest personal time of 3 hours a week for prayer projects
- meet with ‘The Journey’ group on Thursdays, 8 – 10 pm
- set aside one weekend for personal retreat
THEN….’THE JOURNEY’ MAY BE FOR YOU!
Objectives
- To equip Christian leaders with the theology and practice of spiritual growth. To help understand the role of the Holy Spirit in spiritual formation
- To help ministry leaders recognize and cooperate with God's formation work in their lives
- To model a way of journeying with others as part of the mentoring process
Methodology
- Listening as a small community to Dr John Coe’s lectures on spiritual formation
- Meeting in small groups (Group Spiritual Direction) once a month to journey with each other – 2 hours per session
- Personal Time of Doing Prayer projects – about an hour and a half at least twice a week
- Keeping a Journal for your reflections of the prayer projects
- Going on a personal retreat of silence & solitude for one weekend
- Meeting a Spiritual Guide/Director one-on-one on a monthly basis to process time of prayer and journey
Monday, July 21, 2008
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musical weekend
you wouldnt believe me. i went for two "musical" type performances last weekend.
the first, on an impulse prompted by my colleague whom i found out really digged theatre performances, we went on a threesome date (one single guy and two married women!). we saw an off-broadway production "forever plaid":
it was a hilarious musical. synopsis: the singers died in a car crash while going for their first actual gig, so they ended up in limbo cos they have not finished their all-important first mission. when we see them, they are back in 2008 giving us their "first" performance. they "died" in the 1960s. so all their songs were songs from the 50s and 60s. though i remembered only a handful of the songs, their antics, jokes, harmonies and rapport with the audience were really fantastic. it was a really enjoyable night.
the second, on a sunday night was pre-booked for a month and it was a two guys, two gals date. no, we werent dating each other. we were hopelessly unengaged to anyone else, so we ended up being four less lonely people on a sunday night. we went for the canticle singers:
it was a local singing troupe and they sang a repertoire of broadway hits and misses. this is the third time i have seen them and my, how they have improved vastly especially their group singing. it was really nice whenever they sang in a group. an outstanding solo performance was by jade liew when she sang "taylor, the latte boy". you can go here to listen to her. it was a nice enjoyable night on the whole, and on some songs, you could almost feel the nuances of the song exuberating through the singing.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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the lesson
Then Jesus took his disciples up the mountain
And gathering them around him he taught them saying
Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Blessed are the meek
Blessed are they who mourn
Blessed are the merciful
Blessed are they who thirst for justice
Blessed are all the concerned
Blessed are you when persecuted
Blessed are you when you suffer
Be glad and rejoice for your reward is great in heaven
Try to remember what I’m telling you
Then Simon Peter said
Will this count?
And Andrew said
Will we have a test on it?
And James said
When do we have to know it for?
And Philip said
How many words?
And Bartholomew said
Will I have to stand up in front of others?
And John said
The other disciples didn’t have to learn this
And Matthew said
How many marks do we get for it?
And Judas said
What is it worth?
And the other disciples likewise.
Then one of the Pharisees who was present
Asked to see Jesus’ lesson plan
And inquired of Jesus
His terminal objectives in the cognitive domain
And Jesus wept.
By Don Linehan [Canadian]
Monday, July 14, 2008
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weekend openers # 2
this is so reminiscent of last week's entry. i found a few things about me again — LOL, not surpirsing, eh?
1) i seem critical when i am blabbing on my P wavelength, because my thoughts flow forth and i dont really edit them, like i dont care. me being critical is perceived only by some but not all people, from what i can gather, or maybe not, people arent telling ;-p
2) i may be in some form of despair, but the despair can be contained within myself and does not really affect my interations with people or my general mood.
3) i am not so sensitive or expectant of criticism. the fear factor doesnt come out as often as it did in the past especially when i am tired.
4) it seemed i am less edgy — woohoo! much better in circumventing my anger and not projecting them on people.
5) i admitted i have a problem. a problem i would have to deal with. this caused some pain when i realised it.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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the question
i asked a younger friend of mine this question without much cerebral antics: what does your boyfriend value most? it sounded quite ordinary, but my MUCH younger friend hesitated quite a bit in answering it.
who would have thought a question like that could do so much?
if you asked this question and the person didnt know better, it would really tell a lot about the person's relationship with the person's other half.
and even if the person knew the right answer, the question quickly implies a check on the person's acceptance of the said values.
and almost immediately the person would have a revelation of sorts: whether the person's other half is rightly suited or not to thier values. and is it worth of the risks to continue if the values are too contrasting?
True
