Devotion
The Peculiar Life Of Sundays
Robert Dessaix; 14/2/09; The Peculiar Life Of Sundays; Stephen Miller; Harvard University Press. A few weeks ago British rationalists sponsored advertisements on buses urging Britons to stay in bed on Sunday mornings because “God probably doesn’t exist”. If Stephen Miller is to be believed, they were barking up the wrong tree. Christians have been lolling […]
Beautiful advice
This is the most beautiful advice I have ever received in an email …. (Please forgive the formatting)… An Angel says, ‘Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn’t happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.’ 1. Pray […]
Good Quotes
Favorite Quotations (From a facebook friend): If it weren’t for Jesus, I would still be stuck on the smallest thing in the world: self. — Rob Wegner, Granger Community Church. When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith, is […]
Christmas Version of 1 Corinthians 13
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls but do not show love, I’m just another decorator. If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas Cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love, I’m just […]
Desire for God
“How can a conscious spirit be anything other than an absolute desire for God?” — Henri de Lubac “The sacramental life is one that is open to the presence of God, and can open a door for others into eternal movements of love and justice that are there ahead of us, and before us, and […]
All of God
Sent by a friend today: “All of God is right where you are now and nowhere else. I AM is one. There is no second I AM to stand in your light, to put up the feeblest opposition. All is as you would have it because you are Who you are. Here is no spark […]
The Three Keys to All Relationships
Here’s a precis of the talk I gave to the Australian World Vision staff yesterday: Friends, it’s good to be here again. Early in the 1980s World Vision Executive Director Harold Henderson asked me to work for WV as a ‘Leadership Enhancement Consultant’. My job: to wander around the the churches generally were suspicious – […]
The Olympic Creed
Who was the American football coach who said: ‘Winning or losing is not just a matter of life and death: it’s more important than that’? Addiction to winning is not only a capitalist phenomenon, either. Remember past East German and Chinese drug scandals? The Olympic Creed says: ‘The most important thing in the Olympic Games […]
Become what you already are
‘Become what you already are, find Him who is already yours, listen to Him who never ceases speaking to you, own Him who already owns you’. By St Gregory of Sinai (13th Century) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the comings and goings of life, I often stop and remember my need to ‘trust the process’. Sometimes it is […]
Love
‘The only thing that ever changes anyone is love’ Dorothy Day
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