Spirituality
Listening and Spiritual Direction
“Tend only to the birth in you and you will find all goodness and all consolation, all delight, all being, and all truth. Reject it and you reject goodness and blessing. What comes to you in this birth brings with it pure being and blessing. But what you seek or love outside of this birth […]
Bothering God
Some notes from a ‘Faith Matters’ article by Barbara Brown Taylor, Christian Century, March 24-31, 1999, p. 356: ‘[My granddaughter], her mother, her grandfather, and I joined hands around the dinner table and bowed our heads to pray. “Why is granddaddy talking with his eyes shut?” Madeline asked. “Just be quiet and listen,” her mother […]
Advent Prayer
Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a wonder at the wisdom and power of Your Father and ours. Receive my prayer as part of my service of the Lord who enlists me in God’s own work for justice. Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a hunger for peace: peace in the world, peace in my […]
Meditation
The Simplicity of Meditation “While you cannot spend all day studying the Bible, you can think about it throughout the day, recalling verses you have read or memorised and mulling over them in your mind. Meditation is often misunderstood as some difficult, mysterious ritual practiced by monks and mystics. But meditation is simply focused thinking […]
A Spiritual Search
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 […]
Intercessory Prayer
From a netfriend: We have a weekly intercessory service where these issues (for me at least) regularly surface. I attempt to address them in the short introductions we bring to the service, and we then move on to updating information about each of the names on our list, then ‘naming’ them in a time of […]
Prayer Is A Lifestyle
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-168 (Practical Christian Living) PRAYER IS A LIFESTYLE by Paul Grant Yes, after 65 years as a Christian I’m learning new things about prayer. Also, that prayer can become a way of life. Prayer is both hugely comprehensive and magnificently pervasive. It can take over our lives. For God’s pleasure. For our […]
A Prayer When You Need Patience
Forgive me, Dear God, If today I have been impatient, especially with people. If today I have made anyone feel a nuisance. If today I did not show understanding for others mistakes. If today there were times when I was too head strong, too sure I was right. If today I have ridden rough shod […]
Lean On Me
Bill Withers Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there’s always tomorrow Lean on me, when you’re not strong And I’ll be your friend I’ll help you carry on For it won’t be long ‘Til I’m gonna need Somebody to lean on […]
Holy Bravado
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-025 (Devotional) HOLY BRAVADO by Rowland Croucher (ed.) In the small hours Jesus went out to them, walking on the water of the lake. When the disciples caught sight of him walking on the water they were terrified. ‘It’s a ghost!’ they said, and screamed with fear. But at once Jesus spoke […]
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