“O Lord God, in whom we live and move and have our being, open our eyes that we may behold thy presence ever with us. Draw our hearts to thee with the power of thy love. Teach us to be anxious for nothing, and when we have done what thou givest us to do, help…
Category: Meditation
Community or Institution?
“Maybe today some people see opposition between, on the one hand, a seemingly barren, old, institutional church, cut off from the world, looking after buildings, and worried about membership and attendance, and on the other hand, new communities, filled with life, enthusiasm, risk, openness and welcome, concerned about the big issues of the world…
Holy Fool
“The ‘final stage’ of the wisdom of faith is what we might call the Holy Fool. Ironically the Holy Fool is one who knows he doesn’t know, but doesn’t need to either. That’s the freedom. I’m not saying the Fool sits in some kind of dull ignorance. I am saying there is a state…
Spirituality and Theology
“It is my belief that the understanding of the history and theology of Christianity cannot properly be separated from the study of Christian spirituality. What is the character of the Christian life? What is the nature of Christian saintliness? How far is it linked with a response to the historical givenness of the gospel, and…
Jesus and Children
As the kids are driving me nuts a while ago, this particular quote came in timely: “Jesus chose to be around small children a number of times in his ministry, often over the objections of his disciples. Sometimes he seems to have done this in order to hold children up as examples of the childlike…
Money Autobiography
I never tried this before … I think I should … (for more go here) Write out a “money autobiography.” This exercise originates with Elizabeth O’Connor and is expanded in greater detail in her book, Letters to Scattered Pilgrims. The idea is to write a three-page autobiography which deals with the subject of your life…
Dr Love a danger to economy
I read this in the New Straits Times yesterday and was deeply disturbed. “A CHARISMATIC leader of what is believed to be an illegal cult is under close observation, the authorities confirmed today. Under the seemingly harmless guise of running a motivational seminar, the leader, known only to his followers as Dr Love, has been…
The Holy Whisper
Focus looking at the center and see what happens! “Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center. Each one of us can live such a life of amazing power and peace and serenity, of integration and confidence and simplified multiplicity, on one condition – that is, if we really want to….
Fulfilling a Mission
Last week’s meditation from Henri Nouwen in church weekly bulletin which we call LiVEdate has this little line which centered me again and again. Developing this knowledge of who I am and what I’m called to do “does” something to me … (check out the Parody Motivator Generator)
To be Yours
God, you have created me to do you some definite service: You have committed some work to me which you have not committed to another. I have my mission – I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told in the next. Somehow I am necessary for your purposes. I have…