mennonite Archives - Lisa Colón DeLay

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The LIVE, interactive discussion with Andi already happened. (It was awesome!)

We got to talk about her work with race relations and it was fascinating.

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SHOWNOTES

INTRO to EPS 27
Andi Cumbo-Floyd found that farm life taught her about the divine whispers that ignite creativity. Now, she invites writers for workshops full of rest and fellowship. She welcomes and nurtures weary pilgrims to her beautiful rural retreat space so they can create in a safe and life-giving way.
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SHOWNOTES with links:

MNIUTE – 1:00-11:00 (intro)

Note-worthy links:

• The Contemplative Writer Facebook group

• The Slaves Have Names (Andi’s book about race relations and growing up on a former plantation.)

• Andi’s book about writing.

MNIUTE – 10:30

Monks don’t withdraw from the world to hide. They withdraw to pray and prayer is action. (Thomas Merton)

11:30

Storing up our reserves to be more powerful in the world as an agent for healing and change.

12:00 God's Whisper Farm

On Andi’s writing retreat space called God Whisper Farms. Building the farm and fixing it up. Meeting her husband and getting goats and chickens and then relocating the farm to a place with 15 acres.

13:30

Mennonite Tradition. Pastor Jesse Johnson…God whispered (a.k.a. “still small voice”)

18:00

Upcoming residency for writers and artists to have a refuge and respite.

Andisgoats

19:00

Soul care

19:30

God’s Whisper Manifesto lays out the 10 principles for the farm.

20:40

Working with new writers. Goal-setting, the craft of writing, and connect with other writers.

22:00

Her advice for those who are stuck creatively:

Building silence into the day.

(Art comes from a stiller place.)

Kicking starting the process with poetry or lectio divinia.

Listening for your true voice and practicing the hearing needed for when that voice speaks.

24:00

Expectations and other things that block us from our true artistic voice.

Quieting the other voices that haven’t been helpful.

Not “shoulding” and thinking of “oughts”.