This page is a collection of goodies put together over the years while I was at Sanctuary (2016-2023). Enjoy!
The Rattle Bag
A little book of prayers and practices which are useful, sustaining and kind. To download the PDF, click here. For personal use only.
Pray at Home
- Creating a Prayer Space – In the midst of chaos, finding small spaces for prayer: here.
- The Welcoming Prayer – Stop fighting your emotions, and start feeling them: here.
- Centering Prayer – Learning to rest in the love of God: here.
- Lectio Divina (divine reading) – Inhabiting the Scriptures and letting them speak to us: here (for examples, type ‘slow reading’ in the search box).
- Sensio divina – Attending to the presence of God in creation: here.
- Lectio in creation – Prayerfully reading the Bible and creation together: here.
- The Examen – Review and reflect on each day: here.
- Walking the Neighbourhood – Looking around with God’s eyes: here.
- Write your own collect: One way to write a formal prayer: here.
- Prayer Labyrinth – Formal prayer walking: here (and instructions to make your own labyrinth are here.)
Inaction Planner
Mark Van Steenwyk’s Inaction Planner is a powerful tool to help you align yourself with the “unforced rhythms of grace.” Each day, you are invited to pause and reflect on what pressures you feel, what you can let go of, what you can do simply, and what would give you joy: and to let these observations guide and shape your day.
Download the whole booklet, with his introduction and three months’ work of journal pages, here.
Download a single day planner here.
Inaction Planner, by Mark Van Steenwyck of the Centre for Prophetic Imagination (Minneapolis, MN: Mennonite Worker Press), shared here under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Alison and the whale 