Season 1: Episode 2 | A Leader's Journey into Silence and Solitude
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton
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Sitting Still in God's Presence
Ruth's spiritual director told her to sit still long enough for sediment in the water to settle. She was referring to this metaphor of a jar of river water that had been shaken up. And she said, what you really need is to incorporate this practice of sitting still in god's presence every day. For about the first year, i was unable to even get to the ten minute mark on most days. So it was out of a desperate, desperate need and desire for a different way of being on the inside of myself.
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