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FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT: GOODNESS
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT: GOODNESS = KINDNESS + GENEROSITY + GENTLENESS Reflection offered today (13 June 2012) at our Wednesday Koinonia group GOODNESS = competence (good at maths); reliability (good brakes); strength (good eyesight); kindness (good of you to come); moral excellence (good deed or good works); behavior (good child); enjoyment (a good party); thoroughness (gave it […]
Richard Rohr: More Meditations
THE SPIRIT ¢â‚¬Å“They were filled with the Holy Spirit. ¢â‚¬ ~ Acts 2:4 God has grown accustomed to our small and cowardly ways of waiting behind closed doors of fear and self-doubt. God knows that we settle for easy certitudes instead of Gospel freedom, for a small god instead of a Big Mystery. Yet God seems […]
Richard Rohr – more wisdom
THE MATERNAL FACE OF GOD Historically speaking, in our culture the role of men has been to create, to make new things, to fix broken things, and to defend us from things which could hurt us. All of these are wonderful and necessary roles for the preservation of the human race. However, most children saw […]
Fruits of the Spirit: [4] PATIENCE
Wednesday Koinonia 23/5/2012: Fruits of the Spirit: [4] PATIENCE (Reflection led by Rob Perkins) ¢â‚¬Å“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law ¢â‚¬ (Galations 5:23). ~~ Preamble (by Rowland): Our model of patience is God, who is ‘slow to anger’ […]
Henri Nouwen’s wisdom
Jesus Hungers and Thirsts for Uprightness Jesus, the Blessed Son of God, hungers and thirsts for uprightness. He abhors injustice. He resists those who try to gather wealth and influence by oppression and exploitation. His whole being yearns for people to treat one another as brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of the same God. […]
Henri Nouwen wisdom
Emptiness and Fullness Emptiness and fullness at first seem complete opposites. But in the spiritual life they are not. In the spiritual life we find the fulfillment of our deepest desires by becoming empty for God. We must empty the cups of our lives completely to be able to receive the fullness of life from […]
Richard Rohr wisdom
CONTEMPLATION IN ACTION Abraham Maslow points out in his ¢â‚¬Å“hierarchy of needs ¢â‚¬ that one cannot meet higher needs at any level of depth if the lesser needs are not first tended to. One cannot do an ¢â‚¬Å“end run ¢â‚¬ to levels of communion and compassion, for example, when one ¢â‚¬â„¢s basic security and survival needs have not […]
Richard Rohr’s Wisdom
THE SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE When good things can also be recognized as bad things, then you have the spiritual gift of discernment. This will also allow you to see that many things which are good for you are also bad things for other people, the animals, or the earth. It forces you beyond ¢â‚¬Å“either/or ¢â‚¬ thinking […]
THE SECRET OF RADIANT LIFE (W E Sangster)
THE SECRET OF RADIANT LIFE (W E Sangster), London: H&S 1957 Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s the best 20th century book on practical Christ-like holiness in the English language, published twenty years before Richard Foster ¢â‚¬â„¢s Celebration of Discipline. W E Sangster, commonly acclaimed as the ¢â‚¬Ëœgreatest Methodist since Wesley ¢â‚¬â„¢ was a unique pastor/scholar/saint, and one of the first […]
Henri Nouwen… more
Sharing Freely Our Knowledge Often we think that we do not know enough to be able to teach others. We might even become hesitant to tell others what we know, out of fear that we won’t have anything left to say when we are asked for more. This mind-set makes us anxious, secretive, possessive, and […]
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