Today, think on this simple Call to Prayer as a meditation on what it is in our lives that is good, that blesses us, that which blesses others through us. Even on the days that you may think that your life is on the Down side of the roller coaster, what is there that is [...]
Consider the picture below. Think of it as your Prayer Puzzle, Meditation Puzzle, Comtemplation Puzzle – whatever is most comfortable or you on your path. Choose 3 – 5 words you see, and without necessarily pulling them together into a sentence, and use those words for your prayer, meditation, contemplation. There’s plenty of words in [...]
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In the parish I attend (The America Episcopal Church), the preacher for a service often begins with a short prayer before they begin. I have found that such a prayer also works, privately, when I am speaking to God / The Maker before beginning any speech, lesson, or talk. One of mine is a direct [...]
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For those of you who are familiar with the practice of Centering Prayer as a contemplative practice, I got this very interesting quote today that is from a 14th Century book called The Cloud of Unknowing: The Classic of Medieval Mysticism. I admit that I never read this book in my travels because the translation [...]
In my daily tweet from Contemplative Outreach, (yea – I’m experementing with Twitter as a business tool, and that whole social marketing gig. for DayJob,, Inc) they brought up a question/quandry that I have had for a very long time. Contemplative Outreach sends out a quote every morning to folks who follow on Twitter, mostly [...]
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