Disciple Formation Guide: Adults - Enduring Principles

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	Personal Spiritual Practices Closely connect with the Divine through spiritual disciplines.
RETURN TO ADULT: "Responsible Choices"
Heart to Heart Prayer The heart is a center of compassion, healing, and spiritual connection. This prayer allows deep awareness of the spiritual worth of another person. Pray with a partner or imagine a particular person sitting across from you. Invite your partner to place their hands, palms down, on your hands. Close your eyes and be aware of the connection between your hands and then between your heart and your partner’s heart. What needs, feelings, or longings do you sense in the other person as you become aware of them deep in your heart? Invite God’s presence with you and create a bridge of caring and understanding from your heart to the heart of your partner. Ask God to reveal to you the sacred value and meaning of the person across from you. Feel or see God’s healing love flowing into your partner’s heart, and sense that love coming from their heart to yours. After silent prayer, thank God and say “amen.” Open your eyes and thank your partner for sharing with you. You may also want to talk together about your experience or write a journal reflection.
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Chalice Prayer This prayer of blessing invites our care and compassion for God’s sacred people and creation. The chalice prayer is a form of intercession. Create a cup or chalice with your hands in front of your heart. Open your heart to God’s concern for the Earth and human family as you hold them in your chalice. See both beauty and suffering as you lift the chalice up and release the creation (open hands in a wide circle) to be blessed and healed by God. Form the chalice again and hold people who have particular needs—friends, loved ones, and enemies. Lift them up and release them for God’s blessing. Place yourself inside the chalice as you share your deepest needs. Lift and release yourself to God for healing. Say “thank you and amen.”
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