Articles on Prayer
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Contemplatively Oriented Intercession
Article by Tilden Edwards (March 2018 eNews) Through all our clarity and unclarity about particular actions in terms of call and their alignment with God’s Shalom, there is one particular practice that can thread its way through our time, and that is contemplatively oriented intercession. If I suspend any sense of what “I” (my little…
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From Where Do We Live?
Today’s post is by Tilden Edwards From where do we live? We can answer this question in many ways. I suggest here three primary “places” inside us from which we can live that may help us to recognize and choose our spiritual heart in the many different situations of our lives. I think they are…
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The Journey Toward More
Article by Amy Cole (February 2018 eNews) A Pilgrim: a curious soul who walks beyond known boundaries, crosses fields, touching the earth with a destination in mind and a purpose in heart. During a busy decade of my life and ministry, I went to a Cistercian monastery for silent, solo retreat…
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The wound
The wound is the place where the light enters you. ~Rumi
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Perhaps I am
Perhaps I am stronger than I think. ~Thomas Merton
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Deepening Our Ability to Hear
Today’s post is by Mary van Balen Scripture provides no definite age for Samuel at the time of his call. He is called “a boy.” Yet even at this young age, Samuel paid attention. His heart was “awake” even as he slept. One night, in the shrine at Shiloh where he lived under the care of…