Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Resurrection Sunday: Let Him Easter in Us

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For a week or so I’ve been drawn to the Gerard Manley Hopkins line, “ Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness in us. ” I’m reco...
Monday, November 12, 2018

A Check on Your Opinions

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The world contains a huge amount of anxious, angry energy at present. Maybe it always has done so . . . this anxious and destructive energy ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

The "Who" and "What" of Wheat and Weeds: Part 2

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Jesus then told them this story: The kingdom of heaven is like what happened when a farmer scattered good seed in a field. But while every...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

The Journey of Unknowing (part 2): Two Maxims

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Those looking for certainties are seldom long on a deepening spiritual path. Many of us have experienced that the life of the Spirit does no...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

"Farming" . . . Just Because I Can!

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I am not a farmer, nor the son of a farmer. My father, who grew up in rural Northern Oklahoma, wanted nothing to do with the natural world...
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Post-Election: A Pastoral Letter

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I am the pastor of a Contemplative Community in Houston, Texas. It is a diverse community of seekers, who are intentionally engaging a life-...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Snow and Ash: An Ash Wednesday Poem by Steve Garnaas-Holmes

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I've recently found the work of Steve Garnaas-Holmes through some friends who regularly forwarded his poetry and psalm-work to me. His w...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Two Images for Life and Prayer and Reality

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This summer a large group of folks with whom I share life is reading Anthony De Mello’s The Way to Love . I’ve come across a couple of ima...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

A Psalm for the Cycle of Death (Good Friday) and Transformed Life (Resurrection Sunday)

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Last week on Good Friday, the day of Jesus' Crucifixion, I found Psalm 137 appointed for prayer in one of my prayer books. It is a diffi...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Experience of Resurrection

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Easter, the Day, came and went a couple of days ago. Easter, the Resurrection Experience, goes on. As Sunday approached and I thought a...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

One Foot in the Dark and One Foot in the Light: A Rilke Poem

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I'm aware of my tendency to label things as "good" or "bad" depending on how they impact me. It may be that way with...
Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Quest for Perfection: Jerrying My World

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Jesus' statement in Matthew 5:48 scares a lot of folks, and gives the impression that life-with-God is virtually impossible . . . or at ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Waiting for Things to Finally Come Clear

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Sometimes I hear from people who are exposed to some idea or teaching that stands a little outside their personal believe system. In fact, o...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

More Psalms for Prayer

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Praying psalms from the Hebrew Scriptures has been an important part of my prayer practice for years. I know that many folks have difficulty...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Singing a New Song

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God put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. (Ps. 40:3) Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the whole earth. ...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Fruit That Feeds the Hungry

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John 15:12 - 17 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for...
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Lazarus Walking

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I want to tie a couple of cords together. Stick with me for a moment. It's going to take me a minute or two to get there. First, over th...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Choose for a Discerning Life

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One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples t...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Overheard: Merton and Bly on Moving toward Our Purpose

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Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own -- be fam...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Real in Reality

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I'm usually not too interested in "reality" television. Most days my life has enough reality without having to live someone e...