Maybe it is my own infirmity and my impatience with it – for some reason the daily news causes dis-ease in my soul this quiet Advent season. Presidential campaigns are always a stressful time for me, more since our people have once again become the whipping boys of the ones in campaign who strive to [...]
Continue reading about Even So, Lord – patience in the time of great anticipation
One of the most difficult things for us to wrap our minds around is a universal creator with limitless love and acceptance. No matter what you do or have done, or will do in the future: you are loved. No matter where you are from, where you are, or where you will be: loved No [...]
St. Paul writes: I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from God (which is in the LORD Jesus). (Adapted from Romans 8:31-39) [...]
An Acclamation Prayer is very simply a statement: something that you “acclaim” or say to be true. Unlike a prayer in which there’s some asking going to happen at the end, and unlike a meditative prayer which is sitting in silence and acceptance, this is one that we just get to say something good. And [...]
Part of the Contemplative Prayer practice is to begin by turning your attention to the task at hand. A moment to turn your thoughts and your vision inward to this time of silence, of sitting in whole acceptance, and one-on-one communion. Most folks start with a bell or gong. I use a well-worn Tibetan singing [...]
