Spirituality
MYSTERY: Here’s one approach
(From a facebook friend): “When God ceases to exist or present any shred of rational basis to satisfy my leap of faith, and I have come to this place, this is where silence is the most dreadful yet wonderful gift. Falling into God is falling into nothing, quite literally, and that nothing is proving to […]
Evolution gives us a God big enough to believe in
The God who beckons By Joan Chittister 09042009p01phb.jpg [1] (Photos by NASA) Katie was a second-grader in one of our schools. One Friday at art class as the teacher roamed the aisles checking progress, she stopped at Katie ¢â‚¬â„¢s desk and asked, ¢â‚¬Å“Well, Katie, what are you drawing? ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“I am drawing a picture of God, ¢â‚¬ Katie […]
God’s wounds, God’s weakness
Here is a poem written by Edward Shillito, a man who survived the brutal and barbarous First War War: ———— If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow, We must have Thee, O Jesus of the […]
Prayer and the Ordered Life
There’s not too much doubt about it. Painful as it may be to say it, some pastors are not the most organised people in this world. Now this is not meant to be an unkind swipe at dedicated people who give themselves tirelessly to others. It is an observation, a conclusion arising from the hunch […]
WHEN GOD KEEPS TO HIMSELF
In our present day church culture which is mostly preoccupied with strategies for success, there is a need to ponder those moments when it appears that God has moved out of range. Instead of a miracle every day or at least a deep sense of the Lord’s Presence, a day dawns when there is nothing. […]
The Changes Life Brings To Us
It’s a long haul from the cradle to the grave. There’s much to learn, no end of mistakes to make, endless twists in the road and constant change. We recall the youthful, energetic, forays designed to bring in the Kingdom overnight. The world had fewer shades of grey then; the solutions were obvious; the possibilities […]
A QUIET MIND
******** ‘Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm’. -Robert Louis Stevenson In order for me to attain a quiet mind, which I have found to be a glorious state in which to remain, I need to practice […]
Richard Rohr: The Naked Now (3) A brief response
See here, and here, and here for some previous notes I took while reading this very helpful book. And now for some of Rohr’s statements which evoked an ‘Ouch!’ response: * Judaism, Christianity and Islam have not been known for creating ‘harmonizing’ people. In general, peacemaking, non-violence, love for the outsider or for the poor, […]
The Naked Now (Richard Rohr) (2) The Dualistic vs Non-Dualistic Minds
Here are some generalizations from Richard Rohr’s book The Naked Now. Of course generalizations invoke ‘yes but’ retorts. Rohr deals with these – adequately in my view – in the book, but here I’m simply compressing the whole thing into ‘headlines’. Read his book for the whole story, and don’t be put off by these […]
Richard Rohr: ‘both-and’
(From The Naked Now, 2009). First, read this overview of Richard’s book: Here are some notes I scribbled on this concept (I’ve included some page-numbers, but sorry, I don’t have a copy of Richard’s book in front of me right now for the others). Then his brilliant little Appendix “AND”… * Stop thinking about this […]
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