Name: Don't Start on the Phone by "Come to the Waters"
Duration: 16 min 26 s
Description: This week’s spiritual practice is a reminder of first things first. Hint: our phones shouldn’t be first.

This week’s spiritual practice is a reminder of first things first. Hint: our phones shouldn’t be first.

Come to the Waters

Don't Start on the Phone

Troubled by what you are seeing in the news? Feeling heavy hearted about life? Lament is an important spiritual practice that allows us to not fall into the pits of despair, but rather gives us the needed space to be open and raw with the pain that we feel. Lament can expand our hearts and help us grow in compassion. When we lament, we have a God that is ever present with us and weeps when we weep.v

The Importance of Lament

This week we reflect on the spiritual practice of friendship. Pastor Chamie reads a liturgy about friendship from the book Liturgies of Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore. Then she shares a conversation with her life long friends as they were recently on a trip to Paris to celebrate their 50th birthdays.This week we reflect on the spiritual practice of friendship. Pastor Chamie reads a liturgy about friendship from the book Liturgies of Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore. Then she shares a conversation with her life long friends as they were recently on a trip to Paris to celebrate their 50th birthdays.

Don't Start on the Phone

"Come to the Waters"

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