ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of our contemporary culture is impatience. Advances in technology encourage us to demand ever more in less time. Unfortunately the continued pressure to rush everything has reduced our ability to wait for anything. Some aspects of life, however, cannot be rushed. Spiritual growth is no different than physical growth – both…
Category: Meditation
Lost Generation
(HT: Presentation Zen) This is what I call making the needed U-turn in life and thinking!
“New Life bursting through death”: Reflections on Lent by Archbishop Rowan Williams
"It’s not about feeling gloomy for forty days; it’s not about making yourself miserable for forty days; it’s not even about giving things up for forty days. Lent is springtime. It’s preparing for that great climax of springtime which is Easter – new life bursting through death." – Rowan Williams On Ash Wednesday, I was…
We Have Been Pardoned
REPENTANCE IS not so much a condition for forgiveness as a consequence of it. We human beings often hold back our forgiveness for some slight or hurt until we at least see signs of contrition. Not so with God: on the cross, the word of forgiveness is spoken first; it gives birth to one felon’s…
Ash Wednesday: Where we belong
THE ASH WEDNESDAY shadow on the wall, cast by my own solidity blocking light, generates deep penitence and at the same time a yearning for the “new and right spirit” that God gives. We do not search out our sinfulness in order to indulge in feeling bad but to set ourselves on the path of…
Ash Wednesday: The Beginning of Lent
(Music by Joseph Arthur. Cartoons by Si Smith) We have so much fear in all of us. In the secret places of our hearts, Only God and we know what is going on there. Sometimes, we don’t even know ourselves But we only know fear. The fear of sin taking over our lives. The fear…
Transfiguration Sunday: Rest and Remember
GRANT ME GRACE this day to rest and remember that there is nothing I have to do, nothing I have to buy or sell, nothing I have to produce or consume in order to become who I already am: your beloved creation. May your overworked creation and those who cannot rest today come to know…
Break Down the Walls . . .
It’s good to be reminded again of the need to pray in between the local and the global. The resource here from WCC, In God’s Hands: The Ecumenical Prayer Cycle , is very helpful to keep us connected to the wider world. So, let us pray together . and be open to be the answers…
Led in the Life of Faith
GOD’S ABUNDANT GRACE is a gift for which I give thanks. My life is blessed, not because I am good but because God has led me in the life of faith. – Don Beisswenger Locked Up: Letters and Papers of a Prisoner of Conscience (via Upper Room Daily Reflections) There are many hats I wear,…
Known by God
GOD KNOWS US and calls us by name. We are not strangers or aliens to God. We are each and all God’s beloved. We have as our lover the Creator and Master of all that exists. The One who calls us beloved is also the one who know us so intimately and well that even…