San Antonio Mennonite Church
Receiving Spiritual Resilience
A discipline of receiving: daily using mantra prayers from the ancient Psalms, hearing scripture, and engaging in an "examen" at the end of the day. This daily rhythm is coupled with an invitation to join a "journeying group" as well as sit individually with a spiritual director.
Before beginning, please take the Pre-Survey.
Day 23
Prayer:
You pull me out of the Traps
You are my Strength
Psalm 31:4
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 11:1-25
Arriving in Jerusalem
The beginning of the great confrontation
Day 22
Prayer:
Lead me in your Righteousness
Make straight your Way before me
Psalm 5:8
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 10:32-52
Power and real power
Serving on the Way
Blind Barthemeus is the only one who sees
Day 21
Prayer:
I am a sojourner on this earth
Open my eyes to your wonders
Psalm 119: 18-19
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 10:1-31
Responding to our hardened hearts
Receiving the Kingdom
Day 20
Prayer:
Surely goodness and HESED
will follow me all the days of my life
and i will dwell in the house of YAHWEH, forever
Psalm 23
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 9:30-50
Understanding our place in the Kingdom of God
Day 19
Mantra Prayer:
I believe
Help my unbelief
Psalm 116:10, 119:66
Mark 9:24
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 9:14-29
Feeling powerless
Confessing weakness
and still witnessing miracle
Day 18
Mantra Prayer:
You are Love
I listen to you
Psalm 45
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 9:2-13
Jesus' Transfiguration
seeing and listening
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Day 17
Mantra Prayer:
I give you the stresses of my soul
Enlighten my Eyes
Psalm 13:2-3
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 8:1-22 to 9:1
From blindness to seeing to seeing well
and then seeing what "Messiah" really means
Day 16
Mantra Prayer:
You Word unfolds
I see its Light
Psalm 119:30
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 8:1-21
Feeding another crowd
recognizing the miracle we're in beyond the anxiety
Evening Examen
Seeing our selves well
Letting God see our posture of Receiving
Day 15
Mantra Prayer:
Let me hear your HESED
God I trust you
Psalm 143:8
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 7:31-37
Giving hearing and voice
"Ephphatha!" Be opened!
Jesus acting with intimacy of a mother
Evening Examen
Seeing our selves well
Letting God see our posture of Receiving
Day 14
Mantra Prayer:
Behold my heart
You desire truth here
Psalm 51:6
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 7
Truth and desire
our hearts and what comes from them
Evening Examen
Seeing our selves well
Letting God see our posture of Receiving
Day 13
Mantra Prayer:
Your paths are in mighty waters
but you lead us
Psalm 77:19-20
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 6:45-49
Walking on water
Jesus witnessing the night torment
and coming to us
Evening Examen
Seeing our selves well
Letting God see our posture of Receiving
Day 12
Mantra Prayer:
I will not need
I lie down in green grass
I am led beside quiet waters
My soul is restored
Psalm 23: 1-2
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 6:14-44
Herod's feast of death
Jesus' feast of life
Jesus acting out Psalm 23
Day 11
Mantra Prayer:
You are my Lord
I have nothing good besides you
Psalm 16:2
claiming God
giving perspective to value
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 5:21-43
A woman suffering for 12 years
A 12 year old child in death
being seen and taken hold of
Day 10
Mantra Prayer:
My soul clings to you
Your hand takes hold of me
Psalm 63:8
Clinging to God who is closer than breath
and being taken hold of
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 5:21-43
A woman suffering for 12 years
A 12 year old child in death
being seen and taken hold of
Day 9
Mantra Prayer:
Be still
and know that I am God
Psalm 46:10
Being still
receiving awareness of God
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 4:35-5:20
A wild storm
a wild man
stillness and knowing God
Day 8
Mantra Prayer:
YAHWEH you save from darkness
Light is sown like seed
Psalm 97
Seeing a world darkness
receiving saving
seeing light sown
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 4:21-34
Parables about the Kingdom
Seeds without understanding
Protection in the shade
Day 7
Mantra Prayer:
May your HESED come to me, YAHWEH
Let me receive Salvation in you Word
Psalm 119:14
Turning to the Living God
Receiving Love and Salvation
Receiving God's speech
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 4:1-20
A Parable about Seeds
the Word of God scattered
and received
Day 6
Mantra Prayer:
My soul is soothed and quieted
like a weaned child leaning against a mother
Psalm 131:2
Letting our souls receive rest
Letting our lives be adopted
Letting the lies be quieted
Hearing a Good Word
Mark 2:1-17
When Jesus' own mother calls him crazy
When God calls us family