Twelve Royal Teams

Who have helped "plow the furrow" of my life (to use Silf's metaphor taken from I Kings 19:19)?

My parents
Close friends
Teachers
Pastors
Authors
Key events
The Church
Christ in the Eucharist! :)

How have they been instruments of God?

Mostly through the good example of their lives, and their generous ways of nurturing my spirit through specific growth-producing challenges to specific aspects of myself in need of development.

I am mostly motivated by love: life-giving challenges and mercy, and when I am led, it is because I am willing to follow good example.

No wonder I'm a teacher.

How can I use this perception to help me love others better?

Reference: Silf, Inner Compass, Chapter 3 "Finding Our Past in God"

Ways I Pray

Experiencing my relationship w/ God through prayer.
All the "ways" I pray:

• carrying a consciousness of God's Presence constantly in my heart
• passing conversations w/ God in my head/ heart
• praying Scripture (esp Psalms)
• studying Scripture and asking the Holy Spirit for understanding
• making music
• praising God for my day (and everything and everyone in it) throughout the day
• liturgically (in Mass, w/ Christ's Body)
• communing w/ the Eucharist
• tending to others w/ the consciousness that they are Christ in my world
• crying out to God w/ any troubles or challenges or hurts I feel
• simply "sitting w/" God
• conversations w/ God as I read anything
• meditating
• contemplating
• dreaming
• sometimes even just through movement (I like to turn my stretches into prayer)
• thinking about God's working in my life and in others' lives

I engage in many kinds of prayer!
I wonder how many others ways I might open my living to praying?