Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Well, I have come to believe he was spot on. As I've learned about the "art" or "practice" of spiritual formation, everyone talks about "the examen." St. Ignatius of Loyola said that if you can do one and only one spiritual exercise each day, do the examen.
Over the fast few years, a lot of different people have told me lots of different ways to "do" the examen. None of them have really stuck. But I recently came across a very simple way in the spiritual formation class I'm taking right now. It's a very simple approach.
I like simple. I can do simple.
Basically, I take about 15 minutes at the end of the day and pray the following to God:
Thank You...
Help me...
Shane, I love you... (God says to me)
I'm sorry...
Be with me...
So, here we go--let's see what happens.
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