We commemorate the 60th National Day of Prayer.
We invite members of our Contemplative Living Community to join us in
making this day, a global day of prayer.
We invite members of our Contemplative Living Community to join us in
making this day, a global day of prayer.
"We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer."
Thomas Merton. Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux) 104
Contemplative Pause: Throughout the day, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. How are you praying with each action, thought, and word?
Thomas Merton. Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux) 104
Contemplative Pause: Throughout the day, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. How are you praying with each action, thought, and word?
" Beyond the thinking, reflecting, willing and loving self, and even beyond the mystical "spark" in the deepest ground of the soul, is the highest agent, "at once pure and free as God is and like him it is a perfect unity." For "there is something in the soul so closely akin to God that is already one with him and need never be united to him."
Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, (New York: New Directions, 1973) 11
Thought for the Day
This divine likeness in us which is the core of our being and is "in God" even more than it is "in us," is the focus of God's inexhaustible creative delight.
Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, (New York: New Directions, 1973) 11
Contemplative Pause
Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. When do you become a mirror of God through your experiences?
Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, (New York: New Directions, 1973) 11
Thought for the Day
This divine likeness in us which is the core of our being and is "in God" even more than it is "in us," is the focus of God's inexhaustible creative delight.
Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, (New York: New Directions, 1973) 11
Contemplative Pause
Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. When do you become a mirror of God through your experiences?
"[Jesus] sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, 'Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.' Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 'Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.'"
- Mark 9:35-37
"If you hate injustice, tyranny, lust and greed, hate these things in yourself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi page of quotes and haiku
Help us, God, to bring your good news by loving those who have been forgotten. Amen.
- Mark 9:35-37
"If you hate injustice, tyranny, lust and greed, hate these things in yourself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi page of quotes and haiku
Help us, God, to bring your good news by loving those who have been forgotten. Amen.
"I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them. Your Father in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; likewise he sends rain on the just and the unjust. You are the sons of God; even more, you are now the ambassadors of my Father's kingdom. Be merciful, even as God is merciful, and in the eternal future of the kingdom you shall be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Urantia Book: 140:3.16
Urantia Book: 140:3.16
"Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith."
- Hebrews 13:7
God, we thank you for the family in our lives, both old and new. May we welcome the stranger into our house and celebrate new unions. Amen.
"... Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine."
- Flannery O'Connor, from Mystery and Manners
God, we thank you for all the gifts of creation. Everything we need to live a good life is here on Earth. We gather our minds together as one and send our words and thanks to you, the creator. Amen.
- Hebrews 13:7
God, we thank you for the family in our lives, both old and new. May we welcome the stranger into our house and celebrate new unions. Amen.
"... Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine."
- Flannery O'Connor, from Mystery and Manners
God, we thank you for all the gifts of creation. Everything we need to live a good life is here on Earth. We gather our minds together as one and send our words and thanks to you, the creator. Amen.
