Jordan Stones Blog

Mindfulness offerings continue:  For some of us, we fit into the stream of spiritual personality that feels most aligned, most in communion with the Lord when we are connected to nature. This personality type falls into Franciscan spirituality.  I teach a lot on this in my spiritual personality course, but this is a simple suggestion to try sometime.   I mean: SIMPLE. Use this graphic, or find a leaf in your yard or on your walk...in the spirit of practicing governing your breath to serve you when you feel undone, work on connecting pacing your breath as you trace a leaf up one side and down the other as the graphic offers.  I would set a timer and stick with it for 2 minutes. This slowing breath on purpose and with intention not only is a beautiful prayer, it also creates that chemical shift in your brain that moves you from “fight or flight and panic” to “rest and digest and be at ease”.  It is so important that we pick up and use these little “built ...

For me, this is cornerstone.   This is glue. This is mission-critical. They came out of a time in life where I was not in contentment or harmony with who I thought the Lord was.   I had spent sweet developmental years creating ground on which God and I operated in a love drenched, insight fueled, experiential relationship. I knew who God was because I had experienced him. Then, we got bad news. I could not reconcile the character of God with the devastation I was looking at in the natural world, personal and specific to the ruin that now described my hopes and expectations. Not only that. How in the WORLD, once that door of the autricitys of the world is cracked open and you peek inside...do you continue to operate with the kindness of God as your mantle? This post is not going to satisfy the above incompatibility of God’s kindness and world atrocity. Through experiential shaping and divine listening I have come to understand it all comes down to what qu...