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Check out Downloads/Journalling... for links to download the reading plan and quick guide to Journaling if you want to follow along with the Home Group exploration of 'He brought us out to bring us in.'

Contemplative Prayer Teaching

At our Homegroup we are beginning a series on the disciplines. The first area we are exploring together is contemplative prayer. Each week we are listening to a teaching by Thomas Keating, and I’ll upload a link to each file for those who were not able to make HG, or would like to listen again to the teaching.  The links will only be available for a couple of weeks.

Week 1: Foundations

Why contemplative prayer is important, addressing the human condition.

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Keating_01.m4a
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February 6, 2011

Week 2

Keating teaching No 2 of 3 on contemplative prayer

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Keating_02.m4a
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Week 3

Third and final talk by Keating on Contemplative Prayer

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Encouragement – re. Nate Saint and his flying car….

Hi there

My it’s good to see Gods hand on lives and helping people find a way when it doesn’t look so straight forward.

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=635469588001

Making Bird Boxes

Kerry had this idea after listening to a song on YouTube about how much more valuable we are to God than a sparrow.  So we made some bird boxes to give away to our neighbours then shared lunch together.

making bird boxes at CCD from Joe Lafferty on Vimeo.

Trying out the new 8mm iPhone movie making app. Spliced together with iPhone version of iMovie & uploaded to vimeo to embed in CCD website.

Solas 2010: art, faith and justice

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A superb weekend at the first Solas festival this weekend. Solas ‘aims to celebrate, explore and develop connections between art, faith and justice within and beyond Scotland’

Great music, stimulating talks, great conversations, amazing weather.  Much food for thought too and I will share more on this.

For today, here is a poem shared by one of the speakers.

The Place Where We Are Rightby Yehuda Amichai

From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.

The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard.

But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined
House once stood.

Community Garden

Have just update the Community Section of the  web page and added the Community Garden – comments please

worth a go?

This site is really COOL please click here to check it out and lets get busy eh?

..wonder about having some time over the school holidays, maybe at a time when the kids can join in- we could meet in a park or something- maybe have some food or ice cream after…?
exciting hu…!!

So what do people think?

simple instructions on how to post

hi folks,

why not try adding a test post to the blog?

it’s simple, just log on, go to the META on the right hand side, click on log in or site admin and it takes you to this page (click on image to enlarge):

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then click on the left hand side under posts add new.  Add a tag or category to the post to help people find it add a photo from the gallery (or upload a photo/image) then post!

Joe