Casey Tygrett
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Practice Of Remembering
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What if our memories are like shells we gather on a beach?
According to pastor and spiritual director Casey Tygrett, “We-and all those who have come before us-pick up the experience and we sense it: we feel its edges, notice its color, we smell the distinctive character (for shells it is the sickly seafood salt smell) of the experience, and we try to make sense of what it is. Is it beautiful? How would you describe the color-the tones, the shades, wrapped around the ridges and swirls? Has it been damaged? Does the hard edge scrape our hand, leaving a blemish or a mark?”
How we hold and carry these memories-good and bad-is a part of what forms us spiritually. In this way we have a common bond with the people of Scripture who also had a sensory life, gathering shells and trying to make sense of them. Previously titled As I Recall, Casey Tygrett’s writing in The Practice of Remembering explores the power of memory and offers biblical texts and practices to guide us in bringing our memories to God for spiritual transformation.
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Becoming Curious : A Spiritual Practice Of Asking Questions
$16.99Add to cartIntroduction: The Gift
1. Why Curiosity Matters
2. What Do You Want Me To Do For You?
3. A Question Of Identity
4. A Question Of Priority
5. A Question Of Love And Failure
6. A Question Of Ritual
7. A Question Of Grace
8. A Question Too Good To Answer
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Curiosity is essential to growth. A little curiosity moves us deeper into the lives of the people around us. A little curiosity leads to opportunities we never knew existed. A little curiosity helps us understand our own strange emotions. A little curiosity, if focused on Jesus, will make us more like him. Pastor and spiritual director Casey Tygrett loves to ask questions. “There’s a difficult line to walk between what we need to know and what falls into the realm of mystery,” he writes. “Walking that line wears on our nerves and causes incredible tension, so we sometimes settle for easy answers. We begin lose the one thing that fiercely energizes the transformation of our souls. . . . Curiosity is essential to movement in our lives.” When we make curiosity a spiritual practice, we open up to new ways of knowing God and knowing ourselves as well. Come and discover the power of asking questions.