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Jordan Stones: New Years Eve in August...Why are you here?
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Saturday, August 8, 2015. New Years Eve in August.Why are you here? August presents a "New Year's Eve" experience for many of us. Just as much if not more as January calls us to a recalibration of ourselves, because of the change of tide around the school year.this month requires a reset too. For Elijah and us as well, this in preparation for the next thing purpose.An encounter with God. Listen to how the story goes in the translation "The Voice":. The food and drank. The water, and then he lay back down.
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Jordan Stones: Prayer Breaths
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Try what I call a "Prayer Breath". I wanted to expand on an earlier post on Inhaling God. To fill your pocket with a fresh. Perspective on this really effective practice. I use it all the time to plug into the core of me and find my center. All the portions I describe: the physical [For a bit more information on the physical move from one nervous system (sympathetic) to the other (parasympathetic) go back to the Inhale God post],. The body part, physical part. Use your hand...
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Jordan Stones: God's Will, Transitions, and Vocations...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015. God's Will, Transitions, and Vocations. This is inspired by all my dear ones that have recently graduated, those looking ahead at significant shifts, and for my sweet friends in transition. His will for you is unshakable and unmovable and you CANT MESS IT UP. No need to feel struck with fear that somehow picking wrong would change the course of events away from blessing. Comes from the Latin. Story teller, builder, fixer, comforter, edifier. These may feel like callings on your...
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Jordan Stones: Why Yoga?
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Monday, June 1, 2015. Abide In. My. Love. As Christians, we are invited to live a Temple Life. A With-God life. I am passionate about the healing and wholeness found there. This Kingdom Life is an invitation to trust Jesus not just for our eternal destiny, but for an inheritance lived in the Here and now, in the "land of the living" (Psalm. We are containers, Abiding in Jesus and Jesus abiding in us. But how often does our reality reflect that? How many of us criticize and curse our containers? Perfectio...
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Jordan Stones: March 2015
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Saturday, March 21, 2015. Teach us to be people who stay. Teach us to be people who stay. In one of my curriculum books, "Eat This Book" (Peterson, 2006) (Author of The Message. The Hebrew word for meditate is discussed. The word is hagah. It is used in verses like Psalm 1:. Blessed is the one. Who does not walk. In step with the wicked. Or stand in the way. In the company of mockers,. Is in the law of the. On his law day and night.". 8220;As a lion. A great lion over its prey—. This is what meditation is.
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Jordan Stones: January 2015
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Thursday, January 1, 2015. A Hopi Indian Elder Speaks. A Portion of the poem excerpt. There are things to be considered . . . Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? It is time to speak your Truth. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader.". Know the river has its destination. Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. We are the ones we've been waiting for.". Richard Rohr def...
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Jordan Stones: June 2015
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Sunday, June 21, 2015. God's Will, Transitions, and Vocations. This is inspired by all my dear ones that have recently graduated, those looking ahead at significant shifts, and for my sweet friends in transition. His will for you is unshakable and unmovable and you CANT MESS IT UP. No need to feel struck with fear that somehow picking wrong would change the course of events away from blessing. Comes from the Latin. Story teller, builder, fixer, comforter, edifier. These may feel like callings on your...
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Jordan Stones: May 2014
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Thursday, May 1, 2014. To Name is to Learn the Language of Paradise" (Voice Part II). To Name is to learn the Language of Paradise - A. Voskamp. Naming is Edenic.This naming is how the first emptiness of space fills: the naming of light and land and sky. The first man's first task is to name. Adam completes creation with his Maker through the act of naming creatures, releasing the land from chaos, from the teeming, unidentifiable mass. Naming is to know a thing's function in the cosmos- to name is to sol...
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Jordan Stones: "Good Tired" or "Dangerous Tired"?
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Good Tired" or "Dangerous Tired"? This is an insightful excerpt from Ruth Haley Barton's book "Invitation to Solitude and Silence". It is about tiredness. She very wisely creates a distinction between " good tired" and "bad tired". I think it is so important to recognize which characterizes your insides so that you know how to proceed with wellbeing. You are going to love it. Take a second and scroll down to read. Have you ever felt that "incomplete" rest experience? I think we ...
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Jordan Stones: July 2014
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Sunday, July 6, 2014. On this red, white, and blue weekend- I am feeling particularly in sync with the holiday and particularly free. I am taking in "space"- Space to be, space to take in, space to behold from a place of stillness and receptivity. As I think of what stands in the way of this freedom on a regular day,. Smack in the middle of normal life - the idea of scarcity. Comes to mind as my enemy. Lord, make me to know my end and [to appreciate] the measure of my days-what it is; let me know and.
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