Spirituality
Michel Quoist: Prayers on Love
from “Prayer,” by Michel Quoist: “I want to love, Lord, I need to love. All my being is desire; My heart, My body, yearn in the night towards an unknown one to love. My arms thrash about, and I can seize on no object for my love. I am alone and want to be two. […]
Prayer During War
How important is prayer, especially during wartime? Although the war with Iraq has ended, there is still great concern for the safety of America’s troops as well as the Iraqis too, who face continuing violence and the constant threat of terrorist bombing attacks. As a result, many continue to pray for those involved in this […]
A Spiritual Search
by Kim Thoday The celebrated Australian novelist and Christian, Tim Winton, says of his faith journey, ” … I’m still an ambivalent church-goer of mongrel impulses. Part of me wants to kneel in a Gothic cathedral to pray in a cloud of incense. Another piece of me wants to burn that same edifice down and […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [1]
(Part One) (Adapted from chapter one of Recent Trends Among Evangelicals by Rowland C.Croucher), 1986/1995. What is an evangelical? There are now, says one evangelical seminary professor on the US west coast, sixteen kinds of ‘evangelicals’! If, as the truism puts it, the only constant thing is change, that dictum is certainly true of evangelicals […]
Saint Francis De Sales
January 24th – Saint Francis De Sales Born in France in 1567, Francis was a patient man. He knew for thirteen years that he had a vocation to the priesthood before he mentioned it to his family. When his father said that he wanted Francis to be a soldier and sent him to Paris to […]
Looking for God
Lord, my God, my one hope, hear me, that I be not unwilling, through weariness, to seek you, but that I may always ardently seek your face. Give me the strength to seek, since you have made me in order to find you, and have given me the hope of finding you more and more. […]
Spiritual Transitions
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Lord, I Have Time
Abbe Michel Quoist All men complain that they haven’t enough time. They look at their lives from too human a point of view. There is always time to do what God wants us to do, but we must put ourselves completely into each moment that he offers us. I went out, Lord. People were coming […]
Spiritual Life Transitions: A Primer
Dear Rowland, Thank you for including my website in your links. I would be pleased to have you add my article to your site. I have extracted most of the content of my website and put it into a single article which is contained in this email. —————– Beginning of Article —————— SPIRITUAL LIFE TRANSITIONS: […]
Prayer by Thomas Merton
My Lord God I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. […]
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