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Healing Prayer for the World

The other day I found myself weeping over the state of our world. I felt deep grief and pain; I call it being heartsick. I felt moved to seek out another person so I could share this deep pain. As we sat together and I wept, I felt comforted. I told of the troubles I […]

September 09, 2020 by Patience Robbins
Categories: Community, Compassion, Contemplation in Action, Contemplative Living, Contemplative Reading, Contemplative Spirituality, Continuous Prayer, Discernment, Listening, Loss, Love, Non-duality, Prayer, Self Compassion, Service, Spiritual Deepening, spiritual direction, spiritual discipline, spiritual growth, and spirituality in community. Tags: awareness, community, compassion, contemplative tradition, discernment, Dorothy Day, Etty Hillesum, Gandhi, God, grief, grounding, healing, hope, Inspiration, Jerry May, listening, love, Martin Luther King Jr., peace, prayer, presence, richard rohr, silence, spiritual growth, spiritual practice, spirituality, St Francis, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi, suffering, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Merton, and trust. Formats: Friday Blog. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.
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