{"id":26592,"date":"2014-06-20T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=26592"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:15:58","slug":"evoking-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=26592","title":{"rendered":"Evoking Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Summer Moon<\/p>\n<p>To my Woolly brethren and anyone else interested. I found this on the website Watching as the Lights Go Out (link under Third Phase to the right here.)<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that this might be a good activity for us. One person a night for the next year. This is a group method used by this man&#8217;s small church to discern talents, character traits useful for a new work they intend. It seems to me it would be useful, too, for us (the Woolly Mammoths) as a group since we know each other so well now. \u00a0Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;&#8230;we spend over an hour per person in evoking their individual gifts.<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">By \u201cevoking gifts\u201d we mean discerning each person\u2019s specific characteristics and abilities&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">This past Saturday was my turn.<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">We went around the circle, and each person described the gifts they saw in me.<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">It\u2019s an amazing experience!<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">How often do we affirm the value of one another?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Summer Moon To my Woolly brethren and anyone else interested. I found this on the website Watching as the Lights Go Out (link under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=26592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evoking Gifts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woolly-mammoths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35405,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592\/revisions\/35405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}