Before we begin

Observe the instructions below as you enter through the door

  • ·Laptop closed, every device off
  • ·Phones away, screens dark, headphones out
  • ·Let the room be quiet for the next few minutes

The work will still be here. Let us start somewhere else.

The practice

Intercessory Prayer

hands on your lap · feet on the floor · a slow breath

Praying for someone else’s storm rather than your own.

  • ·Bring to mind one person in a hard season
  • ·You do not have to know what they need
  • ·Hold them in front of God for half a minute
  • ·Say amen for them, not for yourself

Spiritual Disciplines Handbook · Adele Ahlberg Calhoun · Part 7 · Pray

breathe

“This present age is a storm, and it is only through
many trials and temptations that we obtain an inheritance.”

Amma Theodora · Theodora 2

Amen.

Open your laptops. Let’s begin.