I have been amazed at the way Christian community expands and develops through the use of social media, i.e. facebook, tweeter, … Here is an interesting article on the subject: Does your Church have a Social Media Pastor?
Archives for 2009
A Blessing
December 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Equilibrium Rocks
May you listen to your longing to be free.
May the frames of your belonging be large enough for the dreams of your soul.
May you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart that something good is going to happen to you.
May you find a harmony between your soul and your life.
May the mansion of your soul never become a haunted place.
May you know the eternal longing which lives at the heart of time.
May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.
May you never place walls between the light and yourself.
May your angel free you from the prisons of guilt, fear, disappointment, and despair.
May you allow the wild beauty of the invisible world to gather you, mind you, and embrace you in belonging.~ John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes
Waiting!
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Advent Reflection ~by Mary Earle at www.explorefaith.org
(link to read the whole reflection – it is great!)
Grant me O God the capacity to wait in hope, to allow your own loving-kindness to grow in me, for the life of your world. Amen.
Active Waiting
December 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit, Henri Nouwen, the late spiritual guide, writes:
Most of us consider waiting as something very passive, a hopeless state determined by events totally out of our hands. The bus is late? We cannot do anything about it, so we have to sit there and just wait. It is not difficult to understand the irritation people feel when somebody says, “Just wait.” Words like that push us into passivity.
But there is none of this passivity in Scripture. Those who are waiting are waiting very actively. They know that what they are waiting for is growing from the ground on which they are standing. Right here is a secret for us about waiting. If we wait in the conviction that a seed has been planted and that something has already begun, it changes the way we wait. Active waiting implies being fully present to the moment with the conviction that something is happening where we are and that we want to be present to it.
Chinese Proverb
September 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~ Chinese proverb
Enough Already!
September 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FINISH each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is Spiritual Direction?
September 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
YouTube Interview with Kristen Hobby – What is Spiritual Direction?
Ah, Children…
September 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which
we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
~ Albert Einstein
Let's Connect