What you do and how you live are absolutely vital. Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning. But what you believe determines how you act.
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Centering Prayer Forms Intimacy with God / Spiritual Meditations
Silent centering prayer balances the mistaken understanding of prayer as a one-way conversation by focusing on what is being communicated from the other end of the telephone line.
Rest Your Mind & Body / Spiritual Meditations
When our mind stills and enters deep silence we come to revelation about ourselves. Silence leads us into transformation and toward knowledge of God.
Lent is Hard / Spiritual Meditations
Through sacrifice and self-examination during Lent, God forms us into one people.
How do You Feel about Foreigners? / Spiritual Meditations
Explore what Jesus, Peter and Paul said about God’s love for strangers and foreigners.
Your Unity With “the Least of These” / Spiritual Meditations
Jesus’ solidarity with the “the least of these” plants him among the prophets (Matthew 25: 40). Jeremiah and Isaiah say the measure of a society is how it treats its least powerful. Jesus entered into commonality with the poor, oppressed and suffering.
When God is Silent / Spiritual Meditations
Are You there, God? You feel very close to God for a moment, during a hymn, during prayer, for a few hours or days and then it’s gone.
A Spiritual Expert’s Private Thoughts on Meditation / Spiritual Meditations
Prayer & meditation should never be regarded as a science or reduced to a system because it is essentially a living and personal relationship, which tends to become more personal and more simple, as one goes on.
Jesus’ Pre-Easter Rescue / Spiritual Meditations
Jesus’ rescuing love sets the standard for Christian holiness & transfigures the lives of those who are fellow workers with God.
The Unconventional Life & Truth of a Christian Mystic / Spiritual Meditations
To be a mystic is simply to participate here and now in that real and eternal life; in the fullest, deepest sense. It is to share, as a free and conscious agent—not a servant, but a son — in God’s Kingdom, sweeping through pain and glory towards home in God.
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