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Lessons from Love is Letting Go of Fear: Part Two

Post author:Emily
Post published:September 7, 2021

One particular bend in the road of my journey (the story I’ll tell for the rest of my life) started when I found Love Is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky. Visit part one of these lessons here.It’s a thin book, barely over 150 pages. Preparations, ingredients, and lessons for personal transformation. It’s simple and straightforward, and yet has deep meaning. Its message was a catalyst, and the words dropped me into the vast pool…

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Lessons from Love is Letting Go of Fear: Part One

Post author:Emily
Post published:August 26, 2021

One particular bend in the road of my journey (the story I’ll tell for the rest of my life) started when I found Love Is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky.It’s a thin book, barely over 150 pages. Preparations, ingredients, and lessons for personal transformation. It’s simple and straightforward, and yet has deep meaning. Its message was a catalyst, and the words dropped me into the vast pool of water that is the present moment.…

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Self-development for 9s and being loving

Post author:Emily
Post published:August 20, 2021

I'm in a lot of Facebook groups about the Enneagram. I love to hang out there, give advice, and learn from others. In the Type 9 group, I've seen quote a few people ask about self-development as a 9 in regards to living a Christian life. Many teachers say that the work of the 9 is to choose his own desires over other people's desires, assert herself, or stop accommodating others. If Jesus calls us to be…

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Listen to Your Life

Post author:Emily
Post published:October 16, 2020

I've been reading The Gift of Wonder: Creative Practices for Delighting in God by Christine Aroney-Sine over the last month or so. The book is about recapturing the joy of God, not the "very serious, workaholic type of God" many of us are used to hearing about in church. At the end of each chapter, she has a small practice for the reader to participate in to tangibly connect with joy, imagination, playfulness, and more things that…

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The soul knows

Post author:Emily
Post published:October 7, 2020

Recently, I've been having dreams about people I haven't seen or spoken to in a very long time. I wake up feeling disoriented, wondering why they appeared again. I try to conceptualize the meaning, but also tell myself it's only my brain misfiring, tying together memories and sensations in the haze of sleep. Usually I forget the dreams soon after I get out of bed and start my day, but they often return to me late in…

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Love is Letting Go of Fear Book Review

Post author:Emily
Post published:July 30, 2020

One evening a few years ago, I was walking around Corvallis. Ryan had left for work, and it was my favorite time of day, when the sun is setting and everything is getting dark and quiet. I went to the river and found a bench. Behind me, a group of friends ran through the water and laughed and took videos and pictures of themselves. I watched the wind move through the trees between me and and wondered…