Category: Spirit matters

I have learned to be content with whatever I have. Philippians 4:11 Praise is inner health made audible.C.S. Lewis If anyone should tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness, all perfection, he would tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you, and […]

our incompleteness is the empty side of our longing for God and God’s love Gerald May [The kingdom’s] a long way off, but to getthere takes no time and admissionis free, if you will purge yourselfof desire, and present yourself withyour need only and the simple offeringof your faith, green as a leaf.                                 […]

Are you confident I can do this? Matthew 9:28 The least we can do is to give the true doctor, who dwells in each patient, a chance to be operative. Carl Jung Deep inside each organism is something that knows what that organism’s true nature and life goal is. It is as though there is […]

Our reading of the gospel story can and should be an act of personal communion with the living God William Temple William Temple, one of the great Archbishops of Canterbury in the 20th century said once that though the story of Jesus happened long ago, in it “we apprehend present fact”. This is because the […]

God’s kingdom is creation healed. Hans Kung Being in touch with the magnificently rich reality of God is at the heart of our prayer for healing: imagining the depth and height and glory of what our life in God can be is a powerful, hopeful and healing antidote to the often fearful and narrow emphasis […]

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction Vaclav Havel Self-transcendence is the movement from within to beyond ourselves. It is reaching out – towards the other, to all living things. It is the deeply felt and joyous need to be in harmony with what we ourselves are not….because it is the expression and affirmation […]

Following our extensive series Practise Resurrection that Fr Philip Carter offered for the Lent and the Easter Seasons, we return to complete the series on Becoming a Human Being. You will find the earlier posts in this series at the following links. Becoming a human being Fostering a climate where communion takes place Jesus: God’s […]

The glory of God is a human being fully alive Ireneaus Don’t look at your “performance” – which all too often leads to: I am not good enough. I don’t deserve to be any better etc. But ask yourself: Is my attitude towards life life-giving or death-dealing? Creative or destructive? Freeing or imprisoning? Each day […]

To believe as against not believing is not to adopt an opinion, but to embrace a life. Herbert Hodges Image source: Macha Chmakov Consolation Look back and ask yourself about choices you have made in your life- and how you now feel about them. How free do you feel in making choices? Or are you […]

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the centre of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I knew all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking […]