The imagination is a discovery faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new. Thomas Merton Image source: Jae-Im Kim We Are God’s Co-workers “Imagination bodies forth/The forms of things unknown”. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The imagination does not explain, but evokes. What is being called out from […]
Like Jacob waking up and exclaiming: “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it”, helping us realise that wherever we are “this [place] is the gate of heaven”. The goal of Christian life becomes not enlightenment but wholeness- an acceptance of this complicated and muddled bundle of experiences as a […]
Like Jacob waking up and exclaiming: “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it”, helping us realise that wherever we are “this [place] is the gate of heaven”. People are hungry for a different space of self-hearing and self-healing…Beyond the turmoil, a tenderness. Beyond the anger and bitterness, something akin […]
The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. _______________________________________ Negative capability…that is, when a man (sic) is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason. […]
The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. Human living as it is normally perceived is an escape from reality. The gospel message is a recall to reality, revealed as a mystery […]
The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. Holiness means assuming total responsibility for all that we are and not simply for how we appear to other human beings. Donald Nicholl “Response” […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. _______________________________ I want to beg you as much as I can…to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. _____________________________ …Not only to know where you are but to learn to love what you find there. Kathleen Norris If, as you get […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. …in everyday life it is the plain facts and natural happenings that conceal God and reveal him to us little […]
We take a pause from the series of meditations on Becoming a Human Being as we enter the season of Lent. Each week during the Lent and Easter seasons there will be a simple meditation that gives you an invitation to put into practice a disposition or attitude that allows you to become more fully […]