Our awareness then, as a scanning mechanism of our environment, is greatly affected if we are looking for where God is showing up in the midst of our present moment.
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The Needed Extreme: No News At All
There was a moment of time recently where there was nothing to do for 5 minutes. Of course I reached for my phone. But this time, it was to read one of the good blogs I use to read from but had abandoned for social media scrolling. The corrective behavior paid off immediately. When I …
Diminshed Time
On a personal note, I find myself hounding the topic of digital retreating due to the incredible amount of wasted time I see in my rearview mirror. At first it can seem justified. The amount of blogs I have read (which as long as they are good credible ones). The amount of chats I have …
Attention Leads To Awareness
I’ve never become more aware of the strawman ‘evil rich person’ I painted in my mind than I have in recent years. Having grown up with an easy to accept construct fed from family and cable news, telling me rich people are not to be trusted, how evil they are, how elitist they act, I …
Pay Attention To What You Value, Not What Distracts
Now to shift our attention on this blog. By shifting to exactly that, attention. My previous articles set up the problem we face collectively with attention hijacking technologies, our lack of healthy solitude, our inability to remove distractions from our lives, and more. Building habits to focus our attention will be a massive topic on …
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Return To Eremos, Wilderness, Stillness
“My aim here is to continue in the spirit of the work laid out by people like Comer, Newport, Sullivan, who have jump started my own path towards a return to healthy stillness and solitude.”
Return To Eremos 