Practicing The Examen (Devotional)
Devotional / Produced by TOW Project
The 400-year-old spiritual discipline of the Examen can help you discern God’s guidance in your daily life.
You can find this devotional on the YouVersion Bible App (download the app here), or get the Practicing The Examen plan on Bible.com
Excerpt:
The Examen is a spiritual discipline that helps you bring God into your day-to-day work. It's five steps – tune into God’s presence, review your day, notice emotions, discern, and look ahead – force you to search for God’s guidance in the smallest details of your life.
St. Ignatius, who developed the Examen over four centuries ago, believed as it says in Colossians 3:23 that all the work you do can be a spiritual discipline. When you work with the intention of glorifying God, all your activities are important.
Practice the Examen:
- Tune into God’s presence. God, be with me as I reflect on my day.
- Review your day. What gave me joy today? What troubled me today?
- Notice your emotions. What made me feel most strongly?
- Discern. What are you asking me to notice, God?
- Look ahead. What guidance do you have for me?
Prayer: God, thank you for being with me in the smallest moments of my daily work. May all my work serve you. Be with me this week as I reflect and discern.
Practicing The Examen on Bible.com
Image by Maryna Patzen / Shutterstock.com . Used with Permission.
Author: Theology of Work Project
Theology of Work Project Online Materials by Theology of Work Project, Inc. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Based on a work at www.theologyofwork.org
You are free to share (to copy, distribute and transmit the work), and remix (to adapt the work) for non-commercial use only, under the condition that you must attribute the work to the Theology of Work Project, Inc., but not in any way that suggests that it endorses you or your use of the work.
© 2014 by the Theology of Work Project, Inc.
Unless otherwise noted, the Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.
