St. Ignatius' style

i'm reading Red Moon Rising by Pete Greig and Dave Roberts right now. very cool. very good. it's an excellent read. it's the story of 24-7 prayer and how people are rocking it and lovin' it. one thing that really spoke to me and is cool to do is "examen", which is an approach to prayer that comes from the prayer traditions of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Examen prayer has people look at the last 24 hours and do three things: first, express gratitude. second, reflect on how God's presence might have been made tangible in that time, and third, confess failure. try it out. Richard Peace, in Meditative Prayer, wrote this on examen: "In the end the prayer of examen is about noticing: noticing the good gifts God gives us, noticing the prescence of God in our lives, and noticing the ways we fail God. When we notice, we become more concious, when we become more concious we grow."

check out www.redmoonrisingbook.com for more