Hunting for God: Fasting week 3

It’s a strange feeling to get to the end of a week and stop to reflect. This week’s post is also a couple of days late, but only because I’ve been trying to work out what to say. I made a note in my journal in the middle of the week about how exhausted andContinue reading “Hunting for God: Fasting week 3”

Hunting for God: Fasting week 2

Cake… So much cake…. So, week 2 of fasting was much harder than week one. I found myself baking muffins for a friends birthday, and lots of tray bakes for church to give away to the local community on Easter Sunday. And all without being able to taste them…. (That’s why this post is aContinue reading “Hunting for God: Fasting week 2”

Hunting for God: Prayer week 4, and a new challenge

This is the last week with prayer as the focus. I don’t mean I’m going to stop praying (in fact, in the last couple of days I’ve found another book with some helpful thoughts), but the book I’m following by Jo Swinney (God Hunting) does 4 weeks, then focuses on a different discipline. Last weekContinue reading “Hunting for God: Prayer week 4, and a new challenge”

Hunting for God: Prayer week 3

After three weeks I do feel like this has been a useful hunt for me. Each week I’ve come to this point and feel like I have something worth sharing. I’m aware this is a hope blog, so what I’m hoping is that anyone reading this will see how my hunt for a deeper relationshipContinue reading “Hunting for God: Prayer week 3”

Hunting for God: Week 2 feedback

So, apart from this being a day late, I also confused myself with the titles! This is what I found after the second week and what I plan to do for the third. First goal: find someone to pray with. I had a really good conversation with a friend about how hard I find itContinue reading “Hunting for God: Week 2 feedback”

Hunting for God: Prayer week 2

I started this week with 2 goals. I figured I’d start small and develop some sustainable habits so I could grow from there. As a recap from last weeks post, my two goals were to pray simply and regularly, and to find someone to pray with. My longer term goals are to get over beingContinue reading “Hunting for God: Prayer week 2”

Hunting for God through… Prayer

Apologies, yesterday’s post on what is a spiritual discipline didn’t get uploaded. So here’s the short version: My understanding is that spiritual disciplines are like building blocks in a growing relationship with God. If you were an athlete you’d have exercises to help you train, and artist of any sort has different techniques to practiceContinue reading “Hunting for God through… Prayer”

Hunting for God in lent

In the Christian calendar, today is Ash Wednesday. It marks 40 days leading towards Easter when we remember Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness before being tempted by the devil. Some people will give something up for lent either as a personal challenge or for spiritual reasons. OK, boring background bit over. I’m notContinue reading “Hunting for God in lent”