Our Many Adaptations

March 31, 2010

     Just like this image to the left, we also have many layers and textures that make up who we are.  Some of what stands out before others is blue, some cloudy and there are some, but not often seen, dark. Society too, puts us in situations that can and do push us into intersections [...]

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Realities of Prayer

March 26, 2010

      Reading Thomas Merton this morning reminded me again about the realities or our prayer life.  He writes, ” Prayer and Love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.  If you have never had any distractions you don’t know how to pray.  For the secret of [...]

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Which way is up?

January 25, 2010

     I don’t know about you, but with the convergence of the new year and the economy I’m at a place of needing to make some decisions.  These choices can be right or wrong.  They can be what I want or what God wants, or they may be somewhere in between.  At some level I need to [...]

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A Merton Minute

January 20, 2010

     Learn to be alone      Physical solitude, exterior silence and real recollection are all morally necessary for anyone who wants to lead a contemplative life, But like everything else in creation they are nothing more than a means to an end, and if we do not understand the end we will make a wrong [...]

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A Merton Minute

January 4, 2010

     “To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason fo my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity.  Selflessness is my true self.  Love is my true character.  Love is my name. If therefore, I do anything or think anything or [...]

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God and Nature, Part IV

December 28, 2009

     We connect with God through His creation at many levels.  Robert Russell writes of another dimension, he states, “the spiritual journey leads not only outward into the universe.  It leads outward into the world, where the people of the world are called to bear witness to the redemptive power of God with us”.  Perhaps [...]

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