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Check out Women of the ELCA’s Lent offering reflection. This devotion can be done alone or with a group. Your Lenten offering will go to help support Women of the ELCA’s health initiative, “Raising up Healthy Women and Girls.”

There are other ways to incorporate spiritual disciplines into your everyday life. Read the Stewardship reflection, “Giving daily care.”

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The Rev. Laura Gentry suggests the following resources for more spiritual practices and exploration.

The Labyrinth

Centering Prayer

Guided Meditation (free audio download)

Yoga and more practices  to balance your life. (Café, Volume 1, issue 2)

Suggested books

Loving Jesus by Mark Allan Powell (Augsburg Fortress, 2004.)

A World According to God: Practices for Putting Faith at the Center of Your Life by Martha Ellen Stortz (Jossey-Bass, 2004.)

Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home by Richard J. Foster (HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.)

Intimacy with God by Thomas Keating (Crossroad Classic, 1996.)

Making All Things New by Henri J. M. Nouwen (HarperSanFrancisco; Reissue edition, 1981.)

Grounded in Prayer by Brent W. Dahlseng (Augsburg Fortress, 2003.)

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