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Presence Is the Doorway  ·  Session 6 of 6  ·  Eastertide

Saturday, April 17Your Life Becomes the Test

• Pacific9:00 AM
• Central11:00 AM
• Eastern12:00 PM

90 minutes on Zoom

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This month

Your Life Becomes the Test

Our final session asks the Easter question: what has actually changed?

The true test of encounter is a changed life: in how we treat people, in what we can no longer hold onto, and in whom we walk alongside. Come with your testimony, however small.

“If God loves me and forgives me with all my flaws, I am obligated to forgive all my brothers and sisters with all their flaws.”

Jim Heaney, Choosing Presence, Introduction, p. xxiii

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Galatians 5:22–23 (RSVCE)

What to expect

1. We breathe together.

   A short poem, then ten conscious breaths.

2. We listen.

   Jim Heaney and Jim Taylor open the month’s theme in conversation.

3. We share.

   Small groups of three or four, one voice at a time, with no fixing or advising. Passing is always welcome.

• Jim Heaney

  Author of Choosing Presence

• Jim Taylor

  Pastor and weaver

• Brian Mueller

  Presence guide

Prepare for the gathering

Suggested reading: Choosing Presence, the Introduction, “Why I Wrote This Book” (pp. xx–xxiv). A short reading also arrives by email the week before the call.

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The series: Presence Is the Doorway

Six monthly calls, November 2026 through April 2027, that follow one path: from presence, to encounter, to a changed life. Join for one or for all six.

1. 1Nov 21Presence Is the Doorway
2. 2Dec 19Not What We Do, but What Is Done to Us
3. 3Jan 16From Calm to Peace
4. 4Feb 20Setting Down the Backpack
5. 5Mar 20Body, Mind and Heart
6. 6Apr 17Your Life Becomes the TestThis month

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