40 Day Devotional: Day 8: Praying in color

Today I feel especially creative and colorful and I googled ‘praying and drawing’. Then I found this AWESOME website I want to share with you today! God made us in all colors and shapes and therefore we can pray in all colors and shapes and forms and manners too. God has a sense of humour […]

the Benedict Project 2: Going to bed on time

After two weeks of attempting to get up early, I learned three things: I am powerless over snoozing and getting up late in general and I can only ask God to take it away from me it helps if I go to bed 9 hours before I have to get up it is about progress, […]

Spiritual toolbox part 6: Silence and rest

Far from home is a perfect place to start – Switchfoot (song: Golden) Part I: Struggle to be silent Silence, peace, rest, prayer, all states I cannot seem to be able to be in at the moment. There’s always the urge to do stuff, be productive, be active. There’s always fear of failing, of praying […]

Spiritual toolbox part 3: The Examen Prayer

First of all, I hope you had a fabulous Easter. Jesus is truly risen!!! Today I want to continue my 10-part series with the Examen Prayer of St. Ignatius de Loyola. In the beginning of Lent my  Twitter-friend Tara told me she was doing the daily Examen Prayer for Lent, as I was giving up […]

Spiritual toolbox part 2: Book of Common Prayer

What is it? The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and of other Anglican churches. A major revision was published in 1662 (Church of England 1662). That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the […]

Spiritual Toolbox part 1: the Daily Prayer

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to improve my prayer life. I’ve been feeling uninspired, dull and unfocused to pray. Still I think prayer is the most important part of our spiritual life. That’s why I decided to dedicate a 10-part series to the matter: The Spiritual Toolbox, exploring different types of prayer […]