Winter Prayer

Cold. Freezing cold. Colder than freezing cold. Loving Spirit, we acknowledge your graceful delivery of warmth that fills our hearts, surrounded by the outer cold. We accept the warmth that blesses our homes. It is your love. Precipitation cycles water from sky to earth. Winter signs are snow and sleet and freezing rain. Careful steps […]

Posted on January 23, 2014 at 6:30 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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For Humiliation

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then I must watch my reaction to it.  (Richard Rohr) I love and am frightened by Richard Rohr’s praying for humiliation. The idea is awesome, the opportunities for self-awareness and growth are tremendous. A daily dose of humiliation can help me see the […]

Posted on January 23, 2014 at 5:01 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Commitment and Devotion

Sweet humans we are. Wonderful mixtures of mind and heart. Pushed by one, pulled by the other. Or the other way ’round. Commitment is of the mind. Devotion from the heart. Each is an allegiance: one for good reason, the other for good love. And both are praiseworthy. Maybe truer is that when we hold […]

Posted on January 21, 2014 at 5:10 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Bodily Harmony

Corinthians 6:19 says …do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? I have long liked that passage. The human body, no matter its shape or size, is such a beautiful, joyful subject for thanksgiving. How accurate to view it and to know […]

Posted on January 15, 2014 at 5:05 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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