introspection

Slow Down to Speed Up: Contemplative Prayer and Clearing the Mind

Most of us go through our days checking off things we had set out to do when the day began and very seldom think about the day itself. We are doers.

Thirteen years ago, I was introduced to “contemplative prayer.” It’s a form of meditation where one tries to clear the mind of the spinning thoughts. It’s a nearly impossible task with 50,000 thoughts moving through our brains every day. 

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Taking Inventory

Every year or at least every so often businesses take inventory. They do this as a matter of tracking. If taking inventory is so important to a business, why wouldn’t taking inventory of ourselves be just as important? It gives us an opportunity to see what we have accomplished or not accomplished during the previous

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