Kimberly Crispeno:: Living an Intentional Life

We recently had the opportunity to hear from Kimberly Crispeno about living intentionally in this season of motherhood. Even though most days we're only able to be about as intentional as making sure there's a vegetable on the dinner table, Kimberly gave us tools to focus on intentional living. We received The Prayer of Examen, which helps us "discern what God is saying in and through circumstances, encounters, and minutia of our days."

To practice the prayer, choose the best time of day, be still and quiet, and invite the Holy Spirit to be present as you reflect on the last 24 hours. When you feel quiet and settled, ask yourself two questions.

Examples:
  What was most life-giving/energizing for me in the last 24 hours? What was most draining?
  What left me feeling full and alive? What left me feeling empty or deadened?
  For what moment in the last day am I most thankful? For what moment am I least thankful?
  When did I give and receive the most? When did I give and receive the least?
  What led me closer to God? What pulled me away from God?
  What was nourishing? What was not?

As you identify your answers, shape them into a prayer. Thank God for the gifts and ask for help where you struggled. This prayer is a tool that can help increase our ability to discern how God is speaking in our lives and understand more clearly what connects/disconnects us from God, others, and ourselves.


For Further Thought...

1. What gets int he way of you living your life intentionally?
2. What helps you live intentionally?
3. What might be the fruit that would come in your life and your home from living more purposefully?
4. What recently has made you feel alive? What is something you can identify that has sucked the life out of you?
5. What is God's invitation to you from today's session?

Click HERE for the recording of Kimberly's talk.

Enjoy!