Spirituality
Still Waters … Deep Waters
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-245 (Devotional) STILL WATERS . . . DEEP WATERS by Rowland Croucher (Ed.) He lets me rest in fields of green grass and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water. A person’s thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can draw them. out. Tremble with fear […]
Lilies In Hard Ground
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-012 (Devotional) LILIES IN HARD GROUND by Rowland Croucher (ed.) But Hezekiah was too proud to show gratitude for what the Lord had done for him, and Judah and Jerusalem suffered for it. Give thanks to him, bless his name! For the Lord is good. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs […]
Prayer On The Occasion Of Utter Boredom In Church
Prayer on the Occasion of Utter Boredom in Church O Lord, this service is so dull that I think I must be dead. But if it be, Lord, by your grace and favour, that I am not in fact dead – merely stunned into mind-numbing oblivion by the overall tedium and general inconsequentiality of the […]
A Good Spirituality Reading List (Memnnonite)
A SPIRITUALITY (AND THEOLOGICAL) READING LIST HERE ARE SOME BOOKS I HAVE HAND-PICKED FOR YOU HENRI NOUWEN…………With Open Hands, The Genesee Diary, Reaching Out,In the Name of Jesus, Sabbatical Journey are just a few. TIMOTHY JONES……….Awake My Soul:Practical Spirituality for Busy People KEN GIRE……………Windows of the Soul. Author “calls us to a fresh sensitivity to […]
How Do I Find You, God?
God is Love. If you have ever loved, If you have ever been loved, You have experienced God from Within and Without God is Truth. If you have ever told the truth, If you have ever discovered Truth, You have experienced God from Within and Without God is Beauty. If you have ever helped to […]
Prayer Of Petrus
The prayer of Petrus At a certain point during my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, we came to a flat, monotonous field of wheat stretching all the way to the horizon. The only thing breaking the dull landscape was a medieval column with a cross on top, marking the pilgrims’ way. As we went up […]
Surfboard Praying – Powerful Intercession
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-140 (Practical Christian Living) Powerful intercession – SURFBOARD PRAYING I remember you in my prayers and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you … Pray on every occasion, as the Spirit leads (Eph […]
Prayer Of Philaret
the prayer of Philaret, a Russian bishop of Moscow in the 19th Century, Lord, grant me to greet the coming day in peace. Help me in all things to rely on your holy will. In every hour of the day reveal your will to me. Teach me to treat all that comes to me throughout […]
A Prayer By Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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. […]
Cooperating With God
Here’s a quote worth contemplating from George Eliot’s poem Stradivarius: “Tis God gives skill, but not without man’s hands. He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.” In order to use our God-given gifts well we need to recognize our potential. And that means appreciating – and developing – our gifts and our strengths. […]
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