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- Contemplating Community
Chris Seay reflects on what it looks like for us to be in community and what we can learn from the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [1 Corinthians 12:7-20].
Reflection
- What are some ways we experience or contribute to scapegoating in our lives?
- What does it look like to listen well in community?
32 min - Contemplation: Giving Consent
As we finish our fall vision series exploring Contemplation, Gena Minnix reflects on what our bodies need in order to enter into a contemplative space [Matthew 26:39-42].
Reflection
- What do I need to know before I can consent to God's healing action and grace within?
- Where and when can I include contemplation as part of my daily routine?
Spiritual Practice
- The Welcoming Prayer. Welcome, welcome welcome. I welcome everything that comes to me today because I know it’s for my healing. I welcome all thoughts, emotions, feelings, persons, situations, and conditions. I let go of my desire for security. I let go of my desire for approval. I let go of my desire for control. I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person, or myself. I open to the love and presence of God, and the healing action of grace within.
28 min - Contemplation: Noticing Deeply
As we continue our fall vision series exploring Contemplation, Gideon Tsang reflects on why it might be helpful to notice our lives more deeply [Matthew 8:18-22].
Reflection
- What does it look like to contemplate the ways we divide in life?
- How can we contemplate finding home within ourselves?
Resources
- Song: Love More (Sharon Van Etten)
Spiritual Practice
- Consider the sides we experience. What if contemplation helps the crowded other side, slowly depopulate? Perhaps overtime we’ll realize there are no other sides within us either. Then perhaps slowly, maybe one day, we’ll realize there aren’t sides.
- Consider our home. Where are you most at home? With whom are you most at home? Where are you least at home? With whom are you least at home?
- Centering Prayer. Sit for 10 minutes and use a sacred word, phrase or image to center and allow yourself to move into a posture of surrender and openness to God.
48 min - Contemplation: Seeing the Space Between Us
As we continue our fall vision series exploring Contemplation, Jason Minnix reflects on contemplative practices that show us how to see and bring healing to our sight [John 9:1-7].
Reflection
- What am I holding tightly to that is filtering my enjoyment of life?
- Where do I sense an invitation to practice resting my mind?
Resources
- Podcast: On Being (Gordon Hempton)
- Terry Martin’s Memorial
- MWG: Discussion Guide
Spiritual Practice
- Practice Contemplation. Set aside 5-20 min a day, and/or perhaps an hour or two once a week. Choose something that gives you space to disengage from thoughts and emotions. Expect some disruption at the start.
- Contemplative Practice. Body Scan. Walk through each part of your body and the reflections that come to the surface.
- Seeing Our Filters. What filters serve me now? (filtering judgment, shame, social media, etc.) What are my filters that keep out life? (filtering love, grace, joy, peace, receiving)
40 min - Contemplation: Creating Space
As we start our fall vision series exploring contemplation, Weylin Lee reflects on how creating space for contemplation actually involves letting go of things in our lives [Matthew 16:24-26].
Reflection
- What are the things we are hesitant to let go of because it’s how we protect ourselves and preserve our way of living?
- Where do our loyalties lie and how do we end up losing sight of God’s vision for our life when we’re so tied to our loyalties?
- What's the frantic and anxious work that we’ve been devoting our energy to and how can we create space for rest instead?
Resources
- Video: Wave Pool in China
- Movie: JoJo Rabbit
- Video: Costco Opening in China
- MWG: Discussion Guide
Spiritual Practice
- Be Still Prayer. “Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.” Sit in a posture of letting go. Pause and reflect after each phrase is read until you’re left with “Be”.
- Prayer of Examen. Review your day and recall moments you experienced God’s presence. Reflect on the loyalties in your life that you’re tied to. Consider how you can discern God in all aspects of your life.
33 min - Freeing Faith?
Gideon Tsang explores what our faith provides for us and in what ways it might be freeing us [Luke 13:10-17].
Reflection
- Is our faith making us less or more free?
- How can we engage the space between our acting and our being?
- What parched areas of our life might need watering this week?
Resources
- Song: Faith (Bon Iver)
Spiritual Practice
- Notice the times where you’re acting vs. being. Give each of the characters a name. Thank these characters for being so helpful. Gently experiment with acting to being
- What part of your life needs watering? What does your soul love to do? How can you find space to water your soul this week?
34 min - Watered Garden
Jason Minnix explores how prayer, justice, and rest work together and how they are all woven together [Isaiah 58:9-14].
Reflection
- How can I invite God's presence into suffering today?
- Where do I sense small sips of rest?
Spiritual Practice
- Invite God’s presence into our suffering and needs. Set aside 1 hour a week to make a list of your needs. Spend time making a plan to meet 2-3 of them. Anticipate set backs. Become curious about God’s support of you receiving what you need.
- Practice Sabbath. Does what I’m doing to rest free me up a little physically, emotionally and spiritually? Take small sips of rest daily. Take a long drink one day a week.
- What’s the one thing I’m being invited into today? To try a more meaningful form of prayer. To bring my needs and suffering into God’s presence and to engage them with care. To find rhythms of rest that free us.
30 min - Hard Times
For Kid’s Sunday, Gena Minnix reflects on how God invites us through difficult times in our lives [Hebrews 12:1-2].
Reflection
- How does my small story connect with the larger story?
- How does 'looking where the artist looked', help me see God's trustworthiness?
Resources
- Video: Mountain of Hell Race Crash
- Artist: Tomás Saraceno
29 min - Touching the Eternal
Jennifer Cumberbatch reflects on the invitation to joy in the midst of suffering [Romans 5:1-5].
Reflection
- Is it possible that suffering (loss, trials, temptations, tribulation) is a portal to the presence of the Holy One and thus a path to experiencing joy?
- Is there divine purpose in suffering?
Resources
- Video: Joyful Joyful (Sister Act 2)
Spiritual Practice
- PLAN: P - Play (Creativity in God’s image), L - Listen for God’s emotions, A - Praise is Appreciation, N - Nurture a heavenly rhythm
47 min - Scarce Abundance
Jason Minnix invites to reflect on what we are striving for and what Jesus invites us to consider regarding our attachments [Luke 12:13-21].
Reflection
- How might I access the grace to see the nightmares I'm holding onto?
- What does it look like to experience the abundance I already possess?
- Where do I hear invitation to move into my interior work?
Spiritual Practice
- What’s my Attachment? (IF-THEN Belief) “If” _______ - What am I striving for? “Then” _____ - What do I imagine that will give me?
- Practice Releasing an Attachment. Reflect on my attachment, or false belief (IF-THEN Belief). Take some time to really see it as a nightmare when I look to it as a source of lasting fulfillment. Become aware of the possibility that I have everything I need to be content right now.
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About Vox Veniae Podcast
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The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with…
a benediction each and every week.