Articles on Prayer
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Thomas Keating and Centering Prayer
Today’s post is by Mary van Balen I’m not sure when I began reading books by Thomas Merton. Probably late high school or early college. I’m also not sure how I discovered them. Though I was naturally drawn to contemplative prayer, the word was unfamiliar to me until Merton’s writings provided it. “Contemplative” was not…
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Encountering God
Encountering God is… like meeting a friend or loved one. ~Bernard McGinn
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Every beautiful thing
Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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Responsibility and Bliss
Today’s post is by Savannah Kate Coffey Years ago, when my son was an infant, the nights often felt endless. One night it was just the two of us in the house and on that particular night I traipsed repeatedly between the rocker in the nursery and my empty bed. I distinctly remember the conflict…
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Our entire self
All good meditative prayer is a conversion of our entire self to God. ~Thomas Merton
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The more
The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it finds. ~Jean-Pierre de Caussade