Devotion
Serenity Prayer: another version…
God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can and the wisdom to know – it’s me! (Dave Andrews at St Martins this morning, 21 April, 2013).
Approach/Avoidance (Richard Rohr)
Richard’s Daily Meditations: Seven Underlying Themes of Richard Rohr’s Teachings Second Theme: If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side (Foundation). Approach/Avoidance Rudolph Otto in his book The Idea […]
The World Community for Christian Meditation
An excerpt from John Main OSB, ¢â‚¬Å“Space to Be, ¢â‚¬ MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 92-93. To know ourselves, to understand ourselves and to . . .get ourselves and our problems in perspective, we simply must make contact with our spirit. All self-understanding arises from understanding ourselves as spiritual beings, and it is […]
Meditation and Unnecessary Clothing
Tuesday of Lent Week 5 By Laurence Freeman OSB Ken Wilber once wrote a very moving account of caring for his newly wed wife through her last illness. As those who know his other writings will appreciate, he is a born intellectual with a huge appetite for acquiring and integrating knowledge and understanding. His books get […]
Review: How to Live: A Guide to the Christian Journey, Stephen Cottrell & Steven Croft, 2011.
Review: How to Live: A Guide to the Christian Journey, Stephen Cottrell & Steven Croft, 2011. Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s as good a book of catechesis as you ¢â‚¬â„¢ll find anywhere, written by two Church of England bishops. Whilst its primary target-audience are those recently baptized or confirmed, it ¢â‚¬â„¢s good for pilgrims at every stage of the journey. (Mine […]
A Talk to Salvation Army Seniors
Good morning friends. The location for this event – in the Crossway Church auditorium, and 50 metres from the Australian World Vision HQ – is all somewhat ‘deja-vu-ish’ for me: I spent nearly two decades working for a previous incarnation of these two institutions… My first contact with a Salvation Army person was with Mrs […]
Movie Review – Les Miserables
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com If you wanted to find an illustration of what the Gospel is, you couldn’t do much better than going to see the latest film version of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. As old as this story is, this is the first time I’ve ever been through it. I have never finished reading […]
Communion on the Moon
Communion on the Moon Beautiful!! I presume that most of us were unaware of this story. (Snopes says it’s ‘TRUE’) I didn’t know this, but it’s awesome! Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969 (This is an article by Eric Metaxas) Forty-three years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the […]
A challenging prayer for Fundamentalists/Pharisees…
Give me humility in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride which is the heaviest of burdens. And possess my whole heart with the simplicity of love… (Thomas Merton). (And help me to move my thinking from simplicity this side of complexity through to simplicity the other side of complexity… […]
Some post-Christmas thoughts
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I’ve shared at different times about the insanity of how rushed we are in December each year in the lead-up to Christmas. It’s sadly ironic that the time of Advent – which covers most of December – is designed to be a time of reflection when we have turned it […]
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