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Dear brave ones navigating the reality of human life, There are a thousand things you could do with your day today. Thank you for joining us for a few moments to call for refuge from the storms of life. If you are feeling fluster-y or needing a good word to invite you forward, join us today as we listen to Psalm 61. The Divine Family is a refuge. We can make our home in them. And though the world continues to spin and shift, we can find calm and peace and safe space to share our truest selves when we come home to the Divine Family. We would love to connect with you through our email list. You can sign up for our email list at livingfaithathome.ca

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What is the story that you live by?

As we sit with Psalm 60, the invitation to rewrite the story of our lives emerges from our listening. We can stand under the Banner of the Divine Family and seek the Divine’s protection and ask for them to rescue us.

The Divine Family loves us. The Divine Family has provided for us. The Divine Family is with us, even in the midst of suffering.

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Are you looking for a place of refuge in the middle of the storms of life?

Psalm 59 might provide you with a refuge or with a call to be roused or with an invitation to remember. Join us as we listen to the Divine Family as we listen to this Psalm and to one another in conversation.

What do you hear as you listen today? How does it connect to your everyday experience?

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We can cry out with anger, frustration, disappointment, sadness and pain. When we express those feelings in our relationship with the Divine, we are creating a Prayer of Lament.

Does a Lament express your feelings at the moment?

As we listen to the Divine Family and to our truest selves using Psalm 58, we are deep into a cycle of Psalms that are Psalms of Lament. Sometimes our feelings mirror the feeling in the Psalm we are listening with. Sometimes our feelings are in contrast to the feelings in the Psalm. Still we listen for how the Divine will speak to us and invite us.

What do you notice as you listen to your body, your emotions, your spirit and the Divine today?Would you like to write your own Prayer of Lament today?

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Here’s a rhetorical question: can anyone live a whole lifetime without experiencing trouble?

Rhetorical questions have an expected answer. The expected answer for this question is “NO!” In each of our lives we feel pain, sorrow and fear. Psalm 57 allows us to attend to those emotions and to RUN into the refuge that can be created in the midst of challenging times.

The Divine Family is our refuge. The troubling things still exist, but in the safety of relationship we can rest, recharge and re-enter our everyday lives receiving forgiveness, compassion and kindness. This is mercy in challenging days.

Open ended questions can be like a key that unlocks a door. As we listen to ourselves and to the Divine Family through Psalms, open ended questions help us in our listening.

What words or phrases stand out to you through Psalm 57? What do you hear the Divine Family invite you to through this Psalm?

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Pausing in the midst of our everyday experiences to listen for the voice of the Divine Family can help us to get grounded and calm as we breathe, focus and attend to what is real.

Psalm 56 offers up the phrase “when I am afraid, I will trust in You,” and we hear the invitation to offer thankfulness to the Divine Family in advance trusting that they will be with us and provide for us even when things are hard.

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When hard and scary times are part of our everyday experience, fighting, fleeing, freezing and folding up might be our natural response. This Listening Practice invited us to call upon the Divine Family, to cast our burdens on the Divine Family.

What is the invitation that grows out of this Psalm for you today?

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As we hear the Psalmist cry out for help and pay attention to our own needs, we are invited to share our feelings and to thank the Divine Family in advance because they will be with us in hard times.

What do you hear as you listen along?

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The practice of listening to a Psalm and sharing a conversation on a regular basis is changing our lives one practice at a time. When we feel like our fortunes need to be restored and our world is full of rejection, Psalm 53 is a safe place to land.

Would you join us in listening today? What do you notice?

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A Listening Practice (or Lectio Divina) is a form of meditation that uses words of scripture to help focus our attention and listening. In this Practice, we listen using Psalm 52 and find an invitation to see the Divine as a refuge, and our lives growing into nourishing trees. What do you hear today?

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If at first you don’t succeed at listening, try and try and try again!

As we carry on with the practice of listening for the Divine Family while listening to the Psalms, we are grateful to hear the voice of the Spirit. Perhaps you will notice something that gives you pause, encouragement or energy. The Psalms are a great toolkit for relationship with the Divine.

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Peace and deep listening to you.

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In the midst of our every day lives, there are so many opportunities to be distracted from what matters most to us. AND there are so many opportunities to listen to what the Divine Family has to say to us. Listen along and let us know what you notice.

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Good day to you.

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We listen to Psalm 49 to hear what God has to say.

Do not be afraid says the wise one in this Psalm.

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Grace and peace to you today.

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We continue to the practice of listening, especially listening for the voice of the Divine Family, using the Psalms.

Psalm 48 has strong imagery around cities and refuge. We each talk about what we notice and we’d love to hear what you notice as well, but the city “stuff” is not what sticks out most to us.

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We’d love to have you join us on Patreon. Grace and peace to you today.

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As we listen to the Divine Family speak to us today through Psalm 47 we notice repetition and a call to step outside of this moment’s emotion. As you listen along, what do you notice?

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Grace and peace to you today.

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We listen to hear the Divine Family speaking to us using Psalm 46.

The Divine Family is powerful but also is a refuge in overpowering situations.

What is the Divine Family saying to you?

If you are willing, take a moment to share what you notice in your listening today.

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Do you believe that the Divine Family really wants to speak to us? Perhaps even through an ancient near eastern wedding song? We listen to the Divine through Psalm 45 in the NRSV and find the oil of gladness, and opportunity to explore things we don’t understand and an invitation to stand for the cause of what is true and right.

What do you hear as you listen to this Psalm today?

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As we listen to the Divine Family through the words of the last half of Psalm 44, we hear emotions and invitations to relationship and remembering. What do you hear as you listen to the Divine Family through this listening practice today?

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Today we listen to the Divine Family speak to us through Psalm 44:1-8. The Divine Family have been with us in the past. The Divine Family is with us now. The Divine Family will be with us in the future. What do you hear as you listen to the Divine Family today?

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When the dark closes in or the internal jangles get too loud, a Listening Practice can help us to get calm, find the light, and seek out the spaces of hope and refuge.

I wonder, what do you hear as you listen today? What do you notice as an invitation that calls you forward?

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