{"id":6626,"date":"2021-06-21T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:43:52","slug":"the-summer-reading-project-begin-with-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/06\/21\/the-summer-reading-project-begin-with-prayer","title":{"rendered":"The Summer Reading Project: Begin With Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Chap\u00adter 3 of B.L.E.S.S. is the B \u2014 B<\/strong>egin with prayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked this chap\u00adter a lot \u2014 it was full of prac\u00adti\u00adcal tips and inspir\u00ading sto\u00adries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One nugget I espe\u00adcial\u00adly appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I reached into my com\u00adput\u00ader bag and pulled out my jour\u00adnal and Bible. After spend\u00ading some time read\u00ading and reflect\u00ading, my rou\u00adtine was to first write the word \u201cB.L.E.S.S.\u201d and then list the peo\u00adple for whom I would sim\u00adply pray for a few min\u00adutes.

Next, I drew a straight black line across the bot\u00adtom of the page in my jour\u00adnal, paused, and then lis\u00adtened for God. This is how I\u2019ve learned to pray every day. Draw\u00ading that hor\u00adi\u00adzon\u00adtal line became a rit\u00adu\u00adal that tran\u00adsi\u00adtioned my mind from talk\u00ading <\/em>to God to lis\u00adten\u00ading<\/em> to Him. Often when I lis\u00adten, noth\u00ading comes to mind\u2013but if some\u00adthing or some\u00adone does I write it down.<\/p>Dave Fer\u00adgu\u00adson, B.L.E.S.S. pages 35\u201336<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I love how sim\u00adple that habit is \u2014 just draw a line and lis\u00adten!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a sim\u00adple neigh\u00adbor map \u2014 draw a tic-tac-toe grid, put your\u00adself in the cen\u00adter, and write your neigh\u00adbors\u2019 names in the squares around you<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Towards the end of the chap\u00adter, there is a sim\u00adple tool called the \u201cWho Is My Neigh\u00adbor?\u201d map. Just draw a tic-tac-toe grid and put your\u00adself at the cen\u00adter. Now iden\u00adti\u00adfy the eight peo\u00adple who are clos\u00adest to you in some con\u00adtext and write their names in the oth\u00ader squares (you could do it for your dorm, for your lab\u00admates, or for your team\u00admates). Voila \u2014 you now have a prayer list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far I\u2019m lov\u00ading this book. It is Bib\u00adli\u00adcal, prac\u00adti\u00adcal, and easy to read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus: the chap\u00adter also con\u00adtained this banger quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not have your con\u00adcert first, and then tune your instru\u00adment after\u00adwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into har\u00admo\u00adny with Him.<\/p>Hud\u00adson Tay\u00adlor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u00f0\u0178\u2018\u20ac \u2014 that\u2019s good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chap\u00adter 3 of B.L.E.S.S. is the B \u2014 Begin with prayer. I liked this chap\u00adter a lot \u2014 it was full of prac\u00adti\u00adcal tips and inspir\u00ading sto\u00adries. One nugget I espe\u00adcial\u00adly appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded: I reached into my com\u00adput\u00ader bag and pulled out my jour\u00adnal and Bible. After spend\u00ading some time read\u00ading and reflect\u00ading, my rou\u00adtine was \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThe Sum\u00admer Read\u00ading Project: Begin With Prayer\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Some simple thoughts on praying for your friends.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[293,294],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews","tag-summer-reading-project","tag-summer-reading-project-2021"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1IS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}