What does compassion have in store for you this month?
What is love asking of you today?
What could empathy be offering you in this hour?
How might joy be given the reins in this minute?
Put your ears to your chest.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
Category Archives: Leadership
Learning
Simply put, learning is the space, the practice, the river, and the discipline that happens in between our knowing and unknowing.
It isn’t a journey into more knowing.
It’s the experience through what you know into what you don’t know.
And once you make it though the unknown you exit on the other side with a little more light, insight, and awe. And, hopefully, that new bit of light shines its rays on even more WONDERful questions to journey through.
Learning sounds a lot like faith doesn’t it?
What if we were more discontent with what we knew and more content with the mysterious places in our hearts and heads?
We would get somewhere.
Somewhere beautiful.
Somewhere our knowing would have never taken us.
Podcast 51: The Practice with Aaron Niequist
Aaron Niequist is a worship leader, song-writer, and pastor in the Chicago area. After leading worship at Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL), he created A New Liturgy – a collection of modern liturgical worship recordings.
Currently, Aaron is curating a discipleship-focused, formational, practice-based community at Willow Creek called The Practice.
Aaron joins us in this episode at Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss his journey and discovery of the beauty that can be found and reclaimed within our ancient liturgical practices.
Transformation…
…means…
a more loving a you…
a more joyful you…
a more peaceful you…
a more forgiving you…
a kinder you…
a better you…
a more faithful you…
a more gentle you…
a more responsive you.
If you’re awake, you’ll start to notice every breath is pointing you towards one of these.
Comparison (The Red Flag)
Allow comparison to be your red flag.
A sign that the ego is fighting to own the eyes in the moment.
The ego will always try to fool you and those you’re near out of one
another’s essence via comparison.
There’s a reason Divinity and diversity share their first three letters.
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