Thanks Pat for a timely post (I’ll be getting ready to buy the book!). “Spiritual theology, using Scripture as text, does not present us with a moral code and tell us, ‘Live up to this”; nor does it set out a system of doctrine and say, “Think like this and you will live well.” The…
Month: March 2006
Praying for Freedom
From Sacred Space. This is what I need daily. ___________________________________________________________________ This prayer helps us to put ourselves at God’s disposal. St Ignatius describes this ‘Preparatory prayer’ as asking for the grace that all my intentions, actions and operations may be directed purely to the praise and service of the Divine Majesty. (The Spiritual Exercises, no….
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9MP – What are your hopes? How will Malaysia move forward? and where is our place in this “movement”? what do we expect as Malaysians? and what is expected of us? One thing for sure, I hope we won’t just be defined by the following (I’m usually better with what I don’t want to be…
Random Thoughts before some “Matrix” Therapy
I’m not into “controversies” … I find it draining. And yet I know perhaps I will still need to face them when they come. so far, I’ve only deleted comments that are “spam” and also one or two where someone else was accused of something I don’t know anything about. Yesterday, I upon the advice…
Lent 29.1: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
John 5:17-30 You : Hi Jesus, it’s me. Jesus : Hello, how nice to see you again! You seem a bit down… You : Well, I have a problem, Lord. Jesus : Yes I know but maybe you’d like to tell me… You : Well, it’s like this. There’s so many things I want to…
Lent 28.1: FELT LIKE GIVING UP LATELY?
John 5:1-16 In today’s reading, we read about an invalid man who was lying down near the pool of Bethesda, known for it’s healing powers when an angel of the Lord would come down to stir up its waters from time to time. The first person to enter the pool when the waters are stirred…
iGod
Click here and have a conversation with iGod *grin*. I found it an interesting experience with a sense of humor 🙂 Here’s a sample of our conversation: Me: Hello God: Hello, my child. What is your name? Me: Sivin God: How are you, Sivin. Me: Do you like curry? God: What is not to like…
Do you want to be made well?
Here’s some “inspiration” for the John 5:1-8 Text reading in Sacred Space, I think it’s more of raising questions we need to hear than being very “motivating” – more of helping us to “move on”. “What a strange question Jesus asked: Do you want to be made well? Yet for those who have been sick…
Lent 27.1: BELIEVE IT OR NOT
John 4:43-54 The story that we read about in the passage never ceases to amaze me. We read about the return of Jesus to Cana in Galilee after staying two days in Samaria. A royal official had heard that Jesus was in town and so came looking for Jesus to beg him to heal his…
Lent 26.1: ‘LOST’
The next couple of meditations is written by Rhema who’s been traveling Malaysia serving the youth alongside Chris Rao (who happens to be her husband!) I was impressed by the youth devotions I saw her do some years ago so I asked her last minute to join the Lent meditations: Nails and Thorns (pdf) project!…