Spirituality
PRAYER OF A HUMBLE SERVANT
(Some of you might pray this ‘Covenant Prayer’ regularly in Communion Services): I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will; Put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me employed for You or laid aside for You; exalted for You or brought [...]
Solidarity in Weakness
Joy is hidden in compassion. The word compassion literally means “to suffer with.” It seems quite unlikely that suffering with another person would bring joy. Yet being with a person in pain, offering simple presence to someone in despair, sharing with a friend times of confusion and uncertainty … such experiences can bring us deep joy. [...]
25 LISTS OF EVERYTHING INTERESTING/IMPORTANT
Dear friends I’m making 25 lists of 25 important/memorable/helpful items/ideas. Anything missing? We’ll have to factor it in to one of these (watch this article): 25 LISTS OF 25 1 MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE WHO’VE EVER LIVED 2 MOST MEMORABLE PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE 3 GREATEST CHRISTIAN HYMNS/SONGS 4 GREATEST SERMONS EVER PREACHED 5 GREATEST [...]
Braco’s Enchanting Gaze (what do you make of this?)
Sightings 12/1/2011 Braco’s Enchanting Gaze – Alan Levinovitz According to his official website, Braco (pronounced braht-zo) is a gentle Croatian man with a remarkable gift: a silent gaze that induces “transformative changes” and “profound experiences” in the hundreds of thousands who attend his “gazing sessions.” Braco is a purportedly non-denominational phenomenon. [...]
God’s love (by Richard Rohr)
The great thing about God’s love is that it’s not determined by the object. God does not love us because we are good. God loves us because God is good. It takes our whole lives for that to sink in because that’s not how human love operates. Human love is largely determined by [...]
Heaven
“……keep your fork” Woman and a Fork There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things ‘in order,’ she contacted her Pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final [...]
MYSTICISM (Richard Rohr)
Mystical moments are experiences of enlargement and connectedness or union. Suddenly you’re bigger. You don’t feel a need to condemn, exclude, divide or separate. Unfortunately, most of us were sent on private paths of perfection which none of us could achieve. The path of union is different than the path of perfection. Perfection [...]
God is with you (Richard Rohr)
To live [in cooperation with God] is to live inside of an unexplainable hope, because your life will now feel much larger than your own. In fact, it is not just your own life, and yet, paradoxically, you are more “you” than ever before! I hope you have experienced that, if just for a moment. [...]
Richard Foster, Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey Into Meditative Prayer (IVP, 2011)
Contemporary culture, writes our (Quaker) author, ‘is good at training us in almost everything and anything… except prayer’. His opening quote is from Elizabeth O’Connor: ‘Churches have no courses on meditation, despite the fact that it is an art that must be learned from those who have mastered it, and despite the fact that the [...]
CONTEMPLATION (Richard Rohr)
What happens in contemplation is that we move beyond doctrines and dogmas to calm inner experience of the same. When we move to the level of experience, we see that this self is only a “radio receiver” and is not to be taken too seriously, for it is always changing stations and is filled with [...]
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