by Alan Fadling | Apr 30, 2024 | Prayer
This was originally posted on May 5, 2021 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. A Practice of Silent Prayer Recently, I’ve restarted my daily practice of silent prayer. Like many who try this practice, I feel an immense amount of resistance arising within me against my...
by Alan Fadling | Feb 27, 2024 | Doubt, Faith, Humility, Spiritual Darkness, Spiritual Formation
This was originally posted on March 21, 2017 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. [These thoughts come from a journal entry of about 10 years ago when I was experiencing a deep and dark night of faith] I have found insight and wisdom for my journey with Christ in the...
by Alan Fadling | Nov 14, 2023 | Spiritual Formation
Have you ever been talking with someone, and as they listened, you felt like you were the only person in the room? The listener had no sense of needing to be elsewhere. They had no sense of needing to interrupt you. They simply listened. How did that feel? On the...
by Alan Fadling | Sep 12, 2023 | Listening, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
Note: This was originally posted on July 12, 2023 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. Over the years, I have led hundreds of retreats that have at their center a few hours to be alone and quiet in listening prayer. At one such retreat, one participant shared a...
by Alan Fadling | Jul 4, 2023 | Life, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
I’ve often shared the story of my first experience of solitude and silence at the beginning of 1990. It was led by one of my mentors, Wayne Anderson, as part of a class I was taking at Fuller Seminary. I tell a little of that story in An Unhurried Life (see p. 20ff),...
