Tag: Sitting practice

• The Practice of Doing Nothing: Sitting with my Suffering (Part 2)

  On a bright summer morning, I dropped my 5-year-old daughter off at day camp placing her in the care of counselors who all appeared to be in high school. Looking at Ella’s counselors I remembered myself at their age, and the parents who entrusted their children to me. I didn’t take the same precautions with […]

  Teri

  October 30, 2014

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  anxiety, Fear, meditation, motherhood, parenting, Peace, practice, ruled by fear, Sitting practice, spirituality, Thich Nhat Hahn, world peace

• The Practice of Doing Nothing: Sitting with my Suffering (Part 1)

  Do all funeral directors believe death takes precedence over life? Or just the ones I have to work with? I got “the call” from our local funeral director informing me that there had been a death in our community. The family (whom I did not know and do not serve as pastor) had requested that […]

  Teri

  September 15, 2014

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  anger, death, life, meditation, ministry, Sitting practice, spirituality, suffering, writing