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Limited Series – part 1 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit


I open this series focused on the work of Howard Thurman with a reading of the Foreword and the start of the Commitment section.

• To read along with me and share thoughts and comments along the way, feel invited to purchase your own copy (from the Amazon affiliate link here or anywhere you’d like) and follow along. 

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I invite you to share your reflections or comment here: https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/153040191


STILL Announcement

I hope you will all be there soon, online with me and others for this annual event that makes welcoming a new year lovely and bright.

Try this link: https://the-pilgrimage.org/home-2/get-connected/winter-solace-2025/

Eps 230: Discernment as Formation | Adam Shields, guest

Today is a guest episode with prolific bibliophile, spiritual director, and non profit consultant, Adam Shields.

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Links and info about all, or most, of the books and authors mentioned in the episode (and Adam’s collection of writing on books that he’s read) can be located here https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/151524864

❇️ To help with the costs of interviewing online, you can donate here: paypal.me/lisacolondelay

You can find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️ at the main channel HERE,

especially if you already enjoy YouTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability and soul care?It’s not strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Come on board!❇️ The November Challenge Patreon post ⬇️https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

An Altar in the World: Feeling Pain [SSL 326]

A powerful reading and short reflection on the incarnational aspects of pain from the fantastic book An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor.

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More on Barbara Brown Taylor and additional reflections await subscribers here ⬇️
https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/150461240

Find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️ at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already enjoy YouTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability and soul care?
It’s not strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Come on board!

❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

Expectation as Patience: Henri Nouwen [SSL325]

Today is about expectation as a gateway to patience AND to joy. A reading from “Out of Solitude” a 1974 work by Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)

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A special surprise awaits subscribers here ⬇️
https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/150258212

Find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️ at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already enjoy YouTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability and soul care?
It’s not strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being. Come on board!

❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968

Treachery and Remorse [SSL 324]

Today a portion of a lesson I presented this past Sunday at my church on Psalm 51 a lamenting and remorseful poem/song and the background and story of King David’s epic treacheries. It might surprise you.

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FIND related slides, images/art including a schematic of an Iron Age home that Bathsheba would have had and the interior courtyard area where she would have bathed or washed anything, plus other extras you will like at the PART II page: https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/149978108

Find me also on YouTube and subscribe ⭐️go here or subscribe at the main channel HERE,
especially if you already find yourself poking around YoutTube.

What a Spiritual Challenge this month with some accountability?
It’s not very strenuous, it’s free, it’s a way to get us thinking, dialoguing, and moving toward better ways of being.

Go here for that ❇️ The October Challenge Patreon post ⬇️
https://www.patreon.com/posts/4-4-quarterly-113008968