My Story -- After asking people “what do they know for sure about God” or “what do they use in their everyday life”, I developed materials for a support group for people who are trying to make sense out of God and life. I call this – Simple Spirituality. This approach is designed to help Christians become more real in their spirituality while also providing a safe place for non-Christians to discuss their spiritual experiences.

Simple Spirituality is an attempt to help people get God out of their heads and into their lives. It is built on the 7 Practices. These 7 Practices flow out of basic fundamental beliefs about God. The practices are important to practice even before the beliefs are acknowledged. Doing so can trigger surprises, unexpected coincidences and God anonymously showing up. Simple Spirituality has been growing in me over a number of years. There have been several influences.

• I watched my mother-in-law’s spiritual transformation through AA.
  
• I asked myself, after years of sermons and lots of Bible, “What do I really use?"
  

• I wondered, “What’s really portable?” In other words, “What can go with me in my heart, wherever I go? Could my beliefs sustain me under any circumstance?”
  

• If I had to explain what I use and what spiritually sustains me on a daily basis, how would I articulate it?

This is how Simple Spirituality was born.
This is how the Practices came to be.
They sustain me.

I hope your experience with Simple Spirituality will be helpful to you

Barb Henderson

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