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Thanks so much to all those who prayed and helped and even donated to make the meditation seminar a success!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Meditation<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And yes, I’m very happy with how it turned out in general. Not that the day was without its challenges – as has been the case almost every Sunday lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Transformational<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This time it was an all-night party from Saturday to Sunday, somewhere nearby. And near enough that we didn’t get much sleep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what an encouragement to see people studying God’s Word, and to hear the thoughts that they drew from their study.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone received a kit with some tools to help them get started (you can see some of them to the right. Thanks to Shari for helping me put these together!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we talked about many more tools and tips and tricks to make daily meditation worthwhile. Group activities, individual activities – lots packed into a short time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the seminar is done, I’m hoping it can be shared again. There are some things I would like to tweak – one thing being that we need a little more time to further explain some things and have more questions and answers. And of course if I do it in English, some of the tools I recommend would be different. Eventually I would like to have it online in both languages as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Transformational<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We started a temporary online group for those who took the seminar, so that we could continue to discuss and share our thoughts on Scripture. So that has been a blessing also! And it has helped to clarify a few things that I didn’t explain well the first time. So that will continue for about 3 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So thanks again! There are few things more wonderful than seeing God’s Word unleashed into our lives to do its work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right: Transformational Biblical Meditation <\/strong><\/em>– of course in Spanish it’s “MBT” – Meditaci\u00f3n B\u00edblica Transformadora<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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