Articles on Prayer

  • What you seek

    What you seek is seeking you. ~Rumi

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  • Be Active and Know

    Be Active and Know

    Today’s post is by Jeff Nelson To help him with his schoolwork, we’ve purchased several fidget cubes for our son. If you aren’t familiar with these, they are small six-sided objects, each side with a series of buttons to press, switches to click, balls to roll with your thumb, and so on. They were born…

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  • For prayer is nothing else

    For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ~Teresa of Ávila

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  • Pilgrimage: The Way of the Heart

    Pilgrimage: The Way of the Heart

    Article by Carole Crumley (in January 2017 eNews) This past month, it seems that everything in my life has been in motion. Trips to stores, shops, the post office have multiplied exponentially. Precious visits to family and friends have kept us on the road. Christmas scripture readings have magnified this sense of movement. A young…

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  • To be born

    To be born

    We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born. ~Meister Eckhart    

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  • Art as a Doorway to Prayer

    Art as a Doorway to Prayer

    Today’s post is by Liz Ward It all started with Michelangelo’s statue of David. While delighting in the beauty of Florence as a carefree nineteen-year-old, I was drawn to visit this famous statue. As I gazed at the vibrant, living, marble, time melted away and suddenly the afternoon was almost over. This was when I…

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