Practices to Come Alive
The theologian Howard Thurman identified four interconnected practices that helped people develop both their inner spiritual life and their outward engagement with the world.
Centering Down - The practice of contemplation, stillness, and deep listening. It’s a way of grounding and rooting yourself in God.
Awakening your Inner Authority - a deep knowledge and confidence in one’s own giftedness, competence and personality and awareness of your identity as a beloved child of God.
Listening for the Sound of the Genuine
Paying Sacred Attention
Each element builds on and reinforces the others - for instance, the practice of centering down helps us better hear the sound of the genuine, which in turn informs how we grow into community. Thurman referred to these practices using the term "working paper" to suggest that this was a dynamic, evolving framework rather than a rigid set of rules.
Follow the links below as each week we offer a brief encounter with these Practices to Come Alive.