Spirituality
Some notes on Prayer
Some jottings from/prompted by Mark Gibbard’s Twentieth Century Men of Prayer (SCM, 1974): We are always beginners in the life of prayer (Thomas Merton) God is seeking us before we are seeking him… those seeking God have already found him (Pascal) When I cease to accept a new idea, simply because it’s new, call in […]
Out of the silence
From a pastor-friend: I have just bought a copy of Jim Cotter and Paul Payton’s prayer book called “Out of the Silence… Into the Silence… Prayer’s Daily Round” published by Cairns Publications, 2006 (which is basically Jim Cotter’s publishing name). I am finding it to be particularly nourishing for daily prayer and group devotions. I […]
Universalism
A friend wrote: It seems to me that Universalism is oppressive – anti-freedom. The Universalist god takes the Atheist’s “no” to mean “yes” – or at least “well, OK then, if you insist”…# My response: Yesterday I had my weekly special-time with our two-year-old granddaughter. I do the weekly shopping with her, and part of […]
A Prayer
We seem to give back the dead to you, LORD, who gave them to us. But as you did not lose them in giving, so we do not lose them by their return. Not as the world gives do you give, O lover of souls. What you give you do not take away, for what […]
Wonder
“Concepts create idols. Only wonder understands.” –Gregory of Nissa
Jung and Eckhart
Spiritual Classics: Jung and Eckhart 5th August 2007 Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, published in 1961, unleashed a fascination with dreams and myth in the development of religious consciousness. David Tacey relates its importance in his life, and also of the 13th century German mystic, Meister Eckhart. Transcript This transcript was typed from a recording […]
Does God answer prayer?
Does God answer prayer? ASU research says ‘yes’ TEMPE, Ariz. — Does God or some other type of transcendent entity answer prayer? The answer, according to a new Arizona State University study published in the March journal Research on Social Work Practice, is “yes.” David R. Hodge, an assistant professor of social work in the […]
The Thought God is Lost In (Richard Rohr)
“The Thought God Is Lost In” We are God’s prayer. We are, in fact, God’s thought. And God is hopelessly lost in thinking us. All we can do is stay naked and self-forgetful, ready for lovemaking. The primary temptation is to cover ourselves with roles, controls, successes and satisfying explanations. The mind will discover a […]
A Prayer for Mother
*A Prayer for Mother’s Day* Loving God we give thanks today for the wonder of all the relationship that sustain us; that nurtured us and that nourish us and give our lives meaning. We are grateful, our God, for those who have given themselves *to* us and *for* us. We are mindful today of those […]
The Media: a prayer
Poet/performance artist, Cameron Semmens, has written this delightful piece: a current-er prayer Our media, whose art is manipulation hollow be thy game. Thy cameras come, it will be done on Nine as it is on Seven. Give us this day our daily sensation, and feed us our fears as we feed the fear of others. […]
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