Oct 31, 2005

Assimilation
Intimacy The Way Of Life
Saying For Today: "The way to life, says Jesus, is only through assimilation, intimacy with, life-giving spirit. "

Oct 30, 2005

Transforming of Criticism
Turning Evil Against You to Good for You
Saying For Today: "Rather, she who attempts great things can succeed only amidst criticism. "

Oct 29, 2005

Persevering in the Work
The Doing of Good
Saying For Today: "Stay in fellowship with Me, trust Me, and the work will bring much pleasure to you and Me, and much good to others. "

Oct 28, 2005

Contemplation and Peace
On Being a Person of Peace
Saying For Today: "We enjoy contemplation, or blessed rest in Christ, only when we cease striving… even against distractions and temptations. "

Oct 27, 2005

Words and God
Beyond Fact Fundamentalism
Saying For Today: "See, the paradoxical conundrum of our language divides many, as is told in the etiological tale of the Tower of Babel: the Tower of Confusion."

Oct 26, 2005

A Horseshoe Bank
Looking To Other Persons’ Interests
Saying For Today: "This looking-out-for-each-other is the Way of Love. "

Oct 25, 2005

Sabbath
Meaning, Time, and Blessing
Saying For Today: "Sabbath pertains to a quality of experience that we can enjoy any day, any moment."

Oct 24, 2005

Hope and Horse Manure
The Experience of Hope
Saying For Today: "Hope is not simply expecting things will get better in another time and place, whether we call that an afterlife, heaven, or something else; hope is alive and enlivening, now and here. "

Oct 23, 2005

The More God Can Do
Infinite Spirit Working Through Our Limitations
Saying For Today: "Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. *St. Paul"

Oct 22, 2005

Stillness As A Spiritual Discipline
Being Gentle On Sacred Ground
Saying For Today: "We learn through stillness to be gentle in the moment. "

Oct 21, 2005

Consolation and Desolation
Being An Unswerving Pursuivant of Virtues
Saying For Today: "We grow in the Prayerful Life to be thankful in either the angst of aridity or the pleasure of soothing solace. "

Oct 20, 2005

The Dynamism of Faith
From Believing About to Believing In
Saying For Today: "What we need is a transformative Christianity, for it will reach to the wellsprings of the heart and transform the energies of personality into the Fruit of the Spirit. "

Oct 6, 2005

Work Passing Through Us
On Disengagement of the Heart
Saying For Today: "Being like an apple tree, you can rejoice in the process of giving through work."

Oct 5, 2005

Meditation and Reconciliation
From Alienation to Wholeness
Saying For Today: "Hence, meditation, by means of the return to the Center, the True Self, or what Main and others refer to as the heart, is training in the healing of alienation by means of the reconciliation of our energies. "

Oct 4, 2005

Emptiness and Body of Christ
The Universal and the Particular
Saying For Today: "In Christ, I can see all creatures as part of the natural Body of Christ."

Oct 2, 2005

Heaven
A Spiritual Geography
Saying For Today: "And, let us not just blame science, for religion has been the prime culprit in denuding the spiritual landscape of sensitivity to Spirit and, thus, of the Transcendent Reality that affirms the sure hope of Heaven. "