Devotion
Growing Through Grief…
Growing Through Grief Thursday August 7th was Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s Day of Mourning for Flight MH17 victims. Thousands gathered nationwide at services to celebrate victims ¢â‚¬â„¢ lives; and to respond to the evil behind their loss with support for those whose grief continues. Life moves on, but closure may be hindered by any lingering or irregular grief signs […]
Remembering Names…
I have a problem remembering names. I used to bluff my way around the problem… (After counseling someone for a 50-minute hour, I usually – not always – pray for them. But as I begin praying, I sometimes realize I’ve forgotten their name. So my prayer has to include ‘my brother here…’ ‘my friend…’ etc.) […]
MONKEY MIND (Richard Rohr)
(Richard Rohr on Dualistic Thinking) There are many words for it ¢â‚¬“ dualistic thinking, associational thinking ¢â‚¬ ¦ It ¢â‚¬â„¢s all about our human need for resolution, judgment, ¢â‚¬Ëœunderstanding ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ ¦ The end-product of ¢â‚¬Ëœunderstanding ¢â‚¬â„¢? Accusations of ¢â‚¬Ëœheresy ¢â‚¬â„¢ (one side of the debate is superior, the other inferior) ¢â‚¬ ¦ Heresy must be destroyed – hence most disputes, wars, violence. In the […]
A Little Journey into Mystical Reality
(Or, what we don’t know can hurt us; as we also prone to make secondary things primary and primary things secondary…) A billion stars go spinning through the night blazing high above your head But within you is the presence the essence of what will be when all the stars are dead… The inner eye […]
What Would Jesus Do? Try this: The Songs of Jesse Adams
Book Review: The Songs of Jesse Adams, Peter McKinnon, Acorn 2014. ¢â‚¬ËœWWJD? ¢â‚¬â„¢ has been a very popular slogan in Evangelical Christianity since the days of the Jesus People in the 60s/70s. Every Christian pastor has preached or counseled asking ¢â‚¬Å“If Jesus came to [our town] what would he be doing? Who would he be […]
The counter-cultural life of surrender
by Nils Von Kalm ¢â‚¬Å“Surrender ¢â‚¬ is not a popular concept in our culture. It speaks of submission, of giving up and of letting someone else control our lives. Yet when we are surrendered to Christ, we find that we are given the life we have always been searching for. The way of Christ is counter-cultural […]
Shut your windows, lock your doors, and disaster will fall from the sky (killer asteroids)
Time, June 9, 2014, pp. 32ff. An article about Don Yeomans – an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The dinosaurs are dead, thanks to a 10-km asteroid that crashed off the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago… It’s the same kind of event that flattened 2150 sq km of trees across […]
How to work out God’s will for your life
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com Have you ever been confused about what God ¢â‚¬â„¢s will for your life is? Have you ever wondered why there seem to be all these other Christians who seem to have discovered their calling, are happy ¢â‚¬Å“in the Lord ¢â‚¬â„¢s service ¢â‚¬ , while you are stuck in a dead-end job wondering what you have […]
Spirituality and Transcendance…
Quest for the divine… Date December 21, 2013 Barney Zwartz Illustration: Jim Pavlidis. Anguish drove Sarah Bachelard back to religion – a familiar path but one with some modern twists. As a young scholar, she studied theology at Oxford University, seeking to fulfil the ”glimpse” of God she had seen while growing up Anglican. ”I […]
Happiness
Money can’t buy happiness, but being happy pays Date September 18, 2013 Daniella Miletic Social Affairs Editor, The Age Professor Satya Paul says Fairfax’s poll results on his study of how happiness affects one’s income are “encouraging” and shares with us some tips for being the most content. Does being happy make you better off […]
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