Devotion
Review: Alexander Shaia, The Hidden Power of the Gospels
Alexander Shaia (with Michelle Gaugy), The Hidden Power of the Gospels: Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey, Harper One, 2010. Now here ¢â‚¬â„¢s an interesting ¢â‚¬Ëœtake ¢â‚¬â„¢ on the Gospels. Shaia ¢â‚¬â„¢s approach doesn ¢â‚¬â„¢t win the approval of some (most?) New Testament scholars. But the names of the people whose endorsements appear on the back cover (Brian McLaren, […]
A Blessing for Death…
From Anam Cara, by John O ¢â‚¬â„¢Donohue: ¢â‚¬ËœA blessing for death ¢â‚¬â„¢ I pray that you will have the blessing of being consoled and sure about your own death. May you know in your soul that there is no need to be afraid. When you time comes, may you be given every blessing and shelter that you […]
Cancer treatments: what works and what’s crazy?
Update (June 18, 2015) Summary of the latest Hospital Saga Briefly: Jan’s left arm and shoulder have been very painful – for over a month. Precursor to angina or other heart troubles or what? Saw a GP last Thursday, 4th – a stand-in for ours who wasn’t on duty that day – and when he […]
A Healing Prayer
¢â‚¬Å“I want you to believe that the Great Father of creation is wanting to tell you what to do, that He is yearning to speak to you personally, to tell you how to deal with your particular problem, how to let go and allow the Great Father to come in and bring about a Divine […]
Pentecost sermon: The Holy Spirit as Comforter
A JOURNEY TO PENTECOST : The HOLY SPIRIT AS COMFORTER (A GOOD SERMON HAS A GOOD BEGINNING, A GOOD ENDING, AND THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME BETWEEN THE TWO.) (I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve had a recent revelation about preaching: not everyone can cope with a long sermon, so today you ¢â‚¬â„¢re just getting the headlines ¢â‚¬“ a classical ¢â‚¬Ëœthree points ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬“ […]
Pentecost, a sermon: The Holy Spirit’s Gift of Comfort
A JOURNEY TO PENTECOST I was wide awake at at 3 o ¢â‚¬â„¢clock this morning. A mogadon sleeping tablet could not entice any more sleep… Yesterday afternoon I ¢â‚¬â„¢d brought Jan home from a 10-day sojourn in the special care unit of the local hospital. Some bright imaging on a PET scan told us she had uterine […]
Gratefulness
It’s true that we don’t know What we’ve got until it’s gone, But it’s also true that we don’t know What we’ve been missing until it arrives..
On Grief
Grief cannot be shared, for it is mine alone.Grief is a dying within me,a great emptiness, a frightening void.It is a loneliness, a sickening sorrow at night,on awakening a terrible dread.Another ¢â‚¬â„¢s words do not help.A reasoned argument explains littlefor having tried too much.Silence is the best response to another ¢â‚¬â„¢s grief.Not the silence that is a […]
The Be-attitudes (Dave Andrews)
Plan Be We Need To Be The Change Many of us desperately want to change our world. But is an illusion to think we can change anybody else but ourselves. The truth is that we cannot change them – we can only change ourselves. We need to remember the alternate version of the Serenity Prayer, and repeat it […]
10 Irrational Beliefs…
10 Irrational Beliefs responsible for the most unhappiness ¢â‚¬“ Albert Ellis There are many lists of these, worded variously, all based on Albert Ellis: The page numbers are from his book, A Guide to Rational Living. The idea that you must have love or approval from all the significant people in your life (101). The idea […]
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