Comments on: Sitting in the Two Extremes https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/03/23/sitting-in-the-two-extremes/ A Global Immersion Site Tue, 30 May 2023 17:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Hannah Lutz, NA-23 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/03/23/sitting-in-the-two-extremes/#comment-257 Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:51:30 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1292#comment-257 In reply to Jer Swigart.

The contemplative practice that I always fall back on is the Quaker practice of centering down. It’s really easy. I just quiet myself for a few minutes and focus on listening for the Spirit.

]]> By: Jer Swigart https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/03/23/sitting-in-the-two-extremes/#comment-254 Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:23:33 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1292#comment-254 Hannah. Thank you for offering this glimpse into your struggle to hold being/becoming with the urgency of doing. Both are critical and they seem at times to compete within us…lulling us toward acting without thinking or navel-gazing. One of my daily practices is to position myself in stillness and listen around the following three prompts: Whose am I? Who am I? What’s mine to do? This simple listening exercise tends to remind me that I am first and foremost a child of God who is deeply loved, not because of what I can accomplish, but because God wants to. This reality focuses my discernment to receive the invitations that the day offers to both become and do. And, what I’m discovering is that when I position myself daily to remember whose I am, my doing is fueled by an abundance of love rather than a desire to prove myself loveable. I wonder if you’d be willing to share what your contemplative practice is that fuels a more sustainable doing?

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