During this Lenten Season, I will be preaching about different Spiritual Disciplines inspired by a book called, Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor by Jan Riess.
This Sunday, (Feb 17) we will talk about infusing daily tasks with a sense of God's presence. This will include the ideas of using the phyical activity of a daily task to free your mind/spirit to pray. Or reminding yourself to "allow the deep love of God to sufuse every meal you prepare, every pot you scrub." (the words of Brother Lawrence).
There will be a challenge issued at the end of each sermon for you to try during the course of the next week. You will be invited to bring back the journaling of your efforts to be put in the offering plate as a gift to God. And there will be an opportunity for people to share how this challenge has worked for them during the service.
So here is the challenge for this next week: Each day (this is the discipline - to do it each day) find/sense God's presence in your daily work. Write it down, and for extra credit, ponder what this meant to you.
May God's presence suprise you each day, and may that be a blessing to you in the week ahead.
With love,
Gayle
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