Experiencing Your Belovedness
40 Days of Praying the Prayer of Examen
Join us for: Experiencing your Belovedness series with the Prayer of Examen.
A 40-day, 7-week journey on Thursdays 1-2:15pm from Sept 10-October 22 on Zoom.
During this series, we will be noticing where we feel the experience of God’s love. We will notice where and how we feel separated from God’s love. We want this to be a felt-sense experience, where we feel in our body a sense of God’s love within and around us.
The rhythm of the program:
Each class we will be exploring a different aspect of the prayer of examen. It is a simple prayer and it has such a rich dimension to it. There will be time for:
• Silence to slow down, turn inward and enter into the stillness to hear the Holy Spirit.
• Review material from the book and possibly supplemental resources.
• Listening practice with a question for the week, noticing our felt-sense and interior stillness.
• Small group share of your insights and or questions. We don’t seek to answer the questions, but bringing them up allows them to be heard and explored.
• Bring any insights back to the large group that the small group wants to share.
• Closing prayer and blessing.
‘This winter I began a process of practicing the examen prayer. The way our teacher, Matt Linn, taught this prayer made a lasting change to me. The practice focuses on the embodiment of God’s love, especially right before sleeping.’ Laurie
Spiritual Directors, Kim Isaak and Laurie Erickson, want to share with you this practice as we read his delightfully simple book: Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life – by Dennis Linn, Sheila Linn and Matthew Linn. It is available on Amazon, so please order it when you register for the series.
Suggested donation: $20