Posts Tagged with "prayer"
Jesus, start over (a prayer)
This past weekend I was away on my quarterly spiritual retreat at The Transforming Center and someone in my small group started a prayer with the first line of this prayer. Over the weekend and since it’s just been bouncing around in my head. Along with that, we talked in church a couple weeks ago – [...]
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Not sure whether I agree or not… The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition – cannot be called prayer. St. Teresa [...]
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
To be honest, it wasn’t my idea to start our garden. It was Jennifer’s. Of course, once I begrudgingly got involved, I found out that I loved it, and then went over the top, adding space and complexity, as I’m wont to do. Two summers ago, I was surprised by the spirituality of the garden. [...]
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- Todd: I hear you there, we can distort the best gifts of God. Most often they are usually the easiest to distort because we have a natural drive and were wi...
- Charlie Dean: all of you - good thoughts! I think that one of the things that I've been processing is the idea of the legalism that I grew up in - where we could ea...
- Seth Ben-Ezra: I grew up in a tradition that kept Sabbath, so it's ingrained into me. Sure, we also were quite capable of tangling a lot of legalistic nonsense into ...
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- Todd: I made an attempt of it a couple years ago, after reading the same book. It was good while it lasted (about two months), then life as I know it crept ...
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