In this post, I’m reviewing Marilyn Vancil’s new book, Self to Lose – Self to Find: A Biblical Approach to the 9 Enneagram Types. I’ll just say it up front: this is not an impartial review, because I am in…
Read MoreFrom junior high through high school, I did a good bit of acting, and one of the plays I did was called “No Exit,” written by Jean-Paul Sartre. The final line of the play has stuck with me decades after…
Read MoreMy husband and I have guests in our home frequently, and I have recently found myself being stingy with food – on three separate occasions! So, I recognized the pattern and realized that there’s an opportunity in it to talk…
Read MoreAdult coloring books are all the rage – and why shouldn’t they be? I have fond memories of a 64-color box of Crayolas and pages filled with drawings of Raggedy Ann, just waiting for my creative interpretation. Green sky? Why…
Read MoreI heard a great story the other day while listening to Suzanne Stabile and Ian Cron’s Enneagram-based podcast, “The Road Back to You.” Suzanne’s daughter told her, basically, that as she interacted with people at her job, she was realizing…
Read MoreJust when I’m wondering what my next blog post will be about, the worldful of human personality steps in and gives me material. Today I saw a post on LinkedIn about the letter that outgoing President Bush left for incoming…
Read MoreWell, I had thought I’d finished this series with the post on Type Seven, because the Enneagram is usually taught starting with the Gut Center and Type Eight. If you go around the symbol, Seven is last if Eight is…
Read MoreI’m planning a birthday trip to visit my family soon, and it’s bringing up some pain. Over the past five years, several deaths, the needs of an aging grandparent and the fallout from an addiction have changed my family’s dynamics…
Read MoreToday, just before I ate lunch outside, I looked up and watched the clouds float across the sky and the trees jostle in the light breeze. A leaf fell into the pond and drifted in the current created by its…
Read MoreI spent two weeks looking at how the three primary instincts and the Centers of Intelligence affect how we pray, and this week I want to talk more generally about the personality’s influence on how we walk out our faith.…
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Quick Start Guide to Centering Prayer
This short guide gives you the essentials for learning to be still and quiet before God so you can hear his voice and feel his love in a deeper way.
