…that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt […]
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Changing Operating Systems
If the universal addiction is to our own pattern of thinking, which is invariably dualistic, the primary spiritual path must be some form of contemplative practice, once just called “prayer,” to break down this unhelpful binary system of either-or thinking, […]
Continue reading »Examine yourself
There’s a world of difference between self-examination and self-awareness. The first means scrutiny of my behavior; the second relates more to my state of being. For me to be successful with the three-fold process of self-examination, meditation, and prayer as […]
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8He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?~ NewAmericanStandard Bible – NASB 1995 Micah 6:8 The short list of […]
Continue reading »Look for Light in Darkness
When we in darkness walk, Nor feel the heavenly flame, Then is the time to trust our God, And rest upon His name. ~ A. M. Toplady It’s counterintuitive. When we need him, when we can’t find him, when we […]
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