tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24212443319874158022012-02-16T01:18:27.108-05:00This is a space for contemplative community of Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development (Camp Hill, PA). It is our hope that you will enjoy discussing and sharing prayerful questions, reflections, and discussing various topics. Oasis is a contemplative community creating space for you to experience the Holy in your life. We offer holy listening, training in spiritual direction, and retreat leadership. Visit our website at www.oasismin.orgOasis Ministries for Spiritual Developmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10696475870399036000noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421244331987415802.post-28175141788206878632011-04-22T09:14:00.000-04:002011-04-22T09:14:09.834-04:00

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I got smudged this morning at 7am.  I have made it a practice to attend an early service in my area, because evenings are crazy at our house and we typically do not go to an Ash Wednesday Service as a family.    The pastor had a beautiful reflection about how on Ash Wednesday, even with all the cleaning agents we have, dust has its day... how dust is at the center of the universe and a

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I received a Christmas card from one of our Oasis graduates.  She wrote, "...the words 'FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE' may not be visible but each person who enters into the Oasis community comes with needs and yearnings.  Oasis Ministries embraces, soothes, encourages and deepens each life and in turn countless others are touched.  The oasis continues to flow and nurture the world.  My life

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SlideShare "Check out your invitation to dinner..." 2010 Homecoming Dinner View

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SlideShare "Check out this link for "Eckhart Meets Eckhart" - the Last Returning to the Well Retreat!" 2010 2011 eckhart meets eckhart View Also found at http://www.oasismin.org/Assets/ReturningtotheWell.html

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SlideShare "Managing Stress and Letting Go into Hope, Lancaster PA, November 13. Flyer here:" Letting Go Of Stress View Also can view more on our website: http://www.oasismin.org/Assets/LettingGoOfStress.htm

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I received this gift on a card last week, author unknown: TransformRealize that you change everything you touch.You are a transformer.Transform yourself and notice how everyone around is suddenly transformed.Transform your fear into faith; your confusion into clarity; and your judgment into love.Transform your relationships with the people you love and the planet you love.Transform your thoughts

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Check out the 2010-2011 Oasis Program Guide -- you will find something transformational in our offerings. Oasis 2010-2011 Program GuideView more documents from oasisministries.

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Savoring this life becomes an automatic and appropriate response the minute I dispense with velocity and pressure. This earth is beautiful and so are we – if I just take the time to notice.  … By going slowly, we move quickly through our many layers of defense and denial until we touch the living pulse of creativity within us all.  The Great Creator made this world to dazzle and move us.  When we

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In searching one of the many technology sights I frequent, I enjoyed reading about Wisdom 2.0:Staying Mindful Amidst Technology Overload. The article spoke of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. The first of its kind, Wisdom 2.0 Conference brought together people from a variety of different disciplines to explore the concept of how we can live mindfully amidst fast-paced streams of information and

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Oasis Ministries Blog: 5 Little Things

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5 Little Things that Create the Opportunity to Listen While we cannot always guarantee that we will listen, we can implement some structures in our lives that provide the opportunity to listen. Quiet Diet: It was mentioned as part of Noise Awareness Day to have 60 seconds of no noise from 2:15-2:16pm.  Why not challenge yourself to take those 60 seconds everyday in the middle of the afternoon -

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Retreat: An Introduction to Contemplative Prayer http://www.oasismin.org/Assets/Introduction%20to%20Contemplative%20Prayer.html   We welcome you to join us on Saturday, May 15th for a day of quiet retreat and contemplative spiritual enrichment. Evelyn Underhill writes, "We mostly spend our lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, to Do." Yet our souls are thirsty for something more

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I just wanted to make sure that you knew Oasis was offering an 'Exploring Spiritual Direction' day in New Jersey. Details for the day are below.   Share this email or the website for this event: http://www.oasismin.org/Assets/Exploring%20Spiritual%20Direct.html   Thanks, Cindy   Exploring Spiritual Direction: A Retreat Day of Learning Come join us for ‘a day apart’ coupled with an

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Oasis Ministries offers a chance to go deeper this Lenten season:   ADVENTURING THROUGH LENT A Retreat Day with authors and teachers, Bruce and Kate Epperly   Friday, March 5, 2010 10:00AM-3:00PM (9:30AM Check-in and fellowship) Drawing from Bruce’s book, Holy Adventure: 41 Days of Audacious Living, a book that challenges Christians to take bold moves in connecting with God and to move

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Knowing that men share best with other men, Oasis is establishing new offerings this year for MEN ONLY.  These include: "Inward Bound: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers for Men Today" A Retreat with author teacher, Belden Lane April 16-18, 2010 Camp Krislund, PA click here to learn more Men4Directions Men4Directions is a year-long program of Oasis

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Oasis is excited to once again offer a Contemplative Canoe Trip this September.  Join Vicki Kensinger and Dennis and Marti Shaak in exploring God in creation while canoeing Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.  If you experienced our annual gathering dinner in November, you saw amazing pictures from the 2009 pilgrimage. September 12-18, 2010 Click Here to Learn More about the Canoe Trip

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This year, Oasis Ministries is pleased to announce the opportunity to experience several authors as leaders of retreats. Oasis "Author Series" includes: ADVENTURING THROUGH LENT A Retreat Day with authors and teachers, Bruce and Kate Epperly - March 5th in Palmyra, PA "An Evening with Belden Lane" co-sponsored with State College Presbyterian Church,

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In our Leading Contemplative Gatherings program, participants are required to develop and facilitate a contemplative gathering or group.  Some of these are closed groups for specific people.  Others are open to anyone.   Open opportunities include:  ... Women's retreat - February 20, Harrisburg, PA  ... Oasis Ambassador's retreat - March 6, Newark, DE  ... The Good Seed - March 6,

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As we watch, wait, support and pray for friends and strangers in Haiti, once again, I am aware of feelings of overwhelm and powerlessness.  However, I came across a quote recently that brought me back to a more centered, sacred place: "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." Helen Keller Sometimes the best we can do is

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As we turn the page on the calendar and a new year, we hear a lot about resolutions. Resolutions conjure up scenarios for me of determination and persistence (as I am focused on this accomplishment), of settling an argument (as finding some resolution to conflict), even of failure (as I did not meet that which I resolved to do last year). However, Epiphany invites me to wonder... and I

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Oasis graduate and former Board president, Marian Methner, shared the following YouTube link with me. It is an interfaith invitation for 40 minutes of contemplation for 40 days. Inspired by a Rumi poem, a woman creates a virtual worldwide sangha, inviting people of all faiths to join one another in meditation and prayer from January 15 to February 23 each year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

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Jim Goudie, participant on the contemplative canoe trip, shares the poetry and pictures below: Drawing from the well of Christ Contemplatively Actively -------------------------------------------- Walking in solitude together seeing ourselves and God reflected in the waters in friendship in words in silence in song and laughter and tears in provision in breeze and rain and

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A reflection by Vicki Kensinger upon return from the Contemplative Canadian Canoe trip offered by Oasis:   dear friends,   as i sat in silent prayer by the backyard pond this morning, closing my eyes, listening, i heard within my heart the sounds of our voices singing. rather, i felt them there, felt the reverberations of the bass supporting the tenderness of  blessing. i noticed the

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At our June Retreat of the Oasis Board of Directors, we were invited to an exercise which asked us to list owrds that described Oasis (or that came to mind when we thougth of Oasis), while building a domino bridge. The following are some of the words Board members listed:connectiondeepeningcommunityequanimityhospitalityself-acceptancelovejoyhopefar-reachinga sure

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