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An Exercise: Mimic

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

One of the most difficult aspects of growing in the seer arena is understanding what you are to do with what you are seeing. Without an outlet or some other practical use the gift can feel frustrating or even disillusioning. One practical step that you can take is to work on seeing things that are practically useful.

The saying goes that we become like the people that we spend time with. The root of this saying comes from the tendency that we have to mimic what we see. If we are around kind people, we tend find kindness comes to us more naturally. The inverse is also often true.

For this exercise we are going to work on seeing positive things in others. This will help us in two ways, first it helps us to focus on the positive and it also helps us to identify good behavior to mimic.

Step 1 Ask the Lord to show you who you are to focus on.

Step 2 Ask the Lord to show you a trait or behavior of the person that he finds pleasing.

Step 3 Ask the Lord to tell you how you can make this more a part of your life.

Step 4 Make a journal note of what you are going to be working on and set a date to come back and see how you have been making progress.

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An Exercise: The History of A Place

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Some locations have special history that creates a spiritual atmosphere. I love old buildings, particularly cathedrals. Whenever I have a chance I go and check them out and have on several occasions taken two or three hour detours to have a visit. One of the things that I have always found fascinating is the way that these great buildings change in the spiritual atmosphere as you stroll through them. I think that is largely due to years and years of worship that has taken place in these place.

This is an exercise to help increase sensitivity to the spiritual environment around you.

Step one: Choose a suitable place to practice. This could be a church, a mall, or even your home.

Step two: Take an inventory of what is going on around you and how you feel. Ask God what is unique about this spot.

Step three: Choose a place to compare to present environment that you are in.

Step four: With your first locations environment in mind head to your second location and compare.

Step five: Ask God how this spot is different from the first.

Step six: Keep going and notice how the spiritual atmosphere changes all around you.

Try this with variations such as at different times of day, or maybe take an inventory of how the atmosphere changes at different parts of a church service. Or, try it with a friend and compare notes.

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An Exercise in Sight

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

What do you see? Each and everyday we see things all around us that are common, interesting, mundane and most of the things that we see we don’t even notice. They are filler, just the stuff that is around us, but not worth paying any attention. I’d like to challenge you to notice something that you don’t normally ‘notice’ and ask your self a few questions such as:

1. What is this called?

2. What is it for?

3. What is an alternate use for this?

4. If this was something else, how would that change things?

5. If I could ask this object 1 question what would it be?

Come up with a few extra questions yourself. The more that we notice, the more attentive we are, the more we can notice and the more attentive we can be.

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Rest Areas

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

I see a wide open road. This is a road that is sometime strait and sometimes twisty. It is a road that is open to anyone but we all have our own. This is the road of life that just goes on and on. What has been catching my attention on this road are the service areas and rest stops that dot the road behind me. Places that we stop and hang out because the road is stretching out to far ahead and feels overwhelming.

I feel the Lord showing me that many of the places that I have stopped to rest in the past were not the places that he had planned. These were stops that I made and often it was just around the corner that I was going to be in Gods planned rest area. God has planned stops intended for each of us, but just like on a long road journey it can be so tempting to stop off a little early and stretch the legs. To stay on schedule we have to keep to Gods planned resting areas.

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Spring

Monday, February 28th, 2011

I love the seasons, as they change the smells, sounds and feel of the entire countryside shifts. Here in the Carolinas spring has arrived, somewhat abruptly only a few weeks ago we had frost nearly every morning. Now it is officially warming up – the herbs, peppers and tomatoes are planted. This time of sowing and seeing what happens has an amazing spiritual significance, working with nature to bring life in order to improve the scenery all around us. It is also a time for building up the summer tan and getting rid of the winter ‘middle’ that seems to arrive over Christmas and stubbornly hold on.

So as I write this I am sitting at the kitchen table looking out over the woods that makes up the majority of the back yard. The signs of life are everywhere the buds on the trees, the birds and squirrels making their sounds. Have you ever wondered how much noise a 20 pound squirrel would make?

As I see spring bounding towards us I feel that both spiritually and in the natural it is time for things to grow. It is a time for the thaw that many of us are so keen to see arriving. Spiritually it is time to move deeper into community, moving closer to God as the wonder of his creation bursts back into focus. But, also time to go on walks with my wife, trips to the beach and time to sort out the short irons and putting.

It is spring! Things are feeling alive.

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