Spirituality
« Previous EntriesPentecostal question
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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I subscribe to a daily meditation from Richard Rohr. These are often very helpful and searching.
Today’s is this:
How have you let the spirit change you?
Rohr goes on to describe the Pentecostal spirit:
The Spirit is always unmerited favor. She always does it first. God is experienced as intimacy and warmth and fire, as […]
Challenges
Friday, March 7th, 2008
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I’m currently reading Richard Rohr’s book Simplicity, The Freedom of Letting Go. Rohr is a Franciscan priest, a well-known writer and retreat master.
I find myself both inspired and challenged by this book. He asks us to see things in different, demanding ways. He uses the teachings of Christ as his bedrock and […]
Sunday Collection: Prayer
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Let my prayer arise before you like incense
The raising of my hands like an evening oblation
From Psalm 140
Normally with these collections, I look back on Saturday at what has struck me during the week, decide on a theme then start writing.
This week, I knew as soon as I read Jen Lemen on Tuesday that […]
The purest wine
Friday, January 11th, 2008
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I wish you the purest, most fearless wine, my friends.
God has given us a dark wine so potent that,
drinking it, we leave the two worlds.
God has put into the form of hashish a power
to deliver the taster from self-consciousness.
God has made sleep so
that it erases every thought.
God made Majnun love Layla […]
Have a very blessed Christmas
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Sunday Collection - strong women
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
No, no, no, that’s not what I mean by strong women! But come to think of it, doesn’t she look joyful and strong and brimming with life?
I’m currently reading The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd (which Lucy recommended to me). The book’s subtitle will tell you what it’s about: A Woman’s […]
Enlightenment
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007There’s an old Buddhist story:
A young man enters a monastery to walk the path of enlightenment. He asks a question: “Master, what shall I do while I seek enlightenment?” The Master replies “You must chop wood and fetch water.”
The long, slow years pass as the young man studies and meditates. Eventually, he realises he is […]
Finding God in the world
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Spirituality
is not to be learned
by flight from the world,
by running away from things,
or by turning solitary and going apart from the world.
Rather,
we must learn an inner solitude
wherever or with whomsoever we may be.
We must learn to penetrate things
and find God there.
By Meister Eckhart
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