One of the greatest inspirational songs I’ve ever heard was one that WETA-FM in Washington, DC played every morning at 6:00 am for many years. I’m not sure if they still do, but in those early training school days of my retail career, I was up in suit-and-tie and on my way to class with [...]
If you’re not familiar with the season of Advent as part of your spiritual practice, a short intro: The Western Christian church has two great contemplative “seasons” in the liturgical year: the opening act before Easter, the 40 days of Lent (we’ll talk about that later in the year) and the First season of [...]
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Through the book of the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the writer speaks of throngs of believers and angels singing the praise of God, and singing “the song of Moses.” (Rev. 15:2,3) That phrase points back through the Bible joining the circle from Revelation to Genesis-Exodus, and it reminds the reader of the great [...]
Prayers and meditations are not always spoken word. Sometimes they’re silent. Sometimes shouts of laughter. Sometimes the garbled incoherence of our weeping soul. Prayers and meditations are not always communication with God and Jesus, and are instead the expression through our body of our relationship with the world, with the universe, with that which we [...]
(you need to turn up the sound for this one, and some of the exact words might not be audible, but you get the gyst.) There now. Was that So Bloody Difficult? “Three things will last forever: faith, hope, and love– and the greatest of these is love.” (1Corinthians 13:13, NLT) Keep [...]
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