God our Father and Mother: So connected together as a global family we now witness live and bear the pain brought upon our fellow members of the human body by the blind force of nature’s rippling chaos. O God who is here with us in suffering and shock, have mercy and help. As the world [...]
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God of Unending Welcome: Urge our hearts into relentless honesty to know our truth hidden by the masks we wear in a world that doesn’t feel quite safe to reveal the depth of our being. Where we feel mocked, inspire connected courage that feels the oneness of our human life beyond all the differences. Where [...]
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Infused with Christmas beauty, we feel your loving presence. Your prophets are calling. And we are preparing a space for grace in us. We willingly surrender to you. May this Advent season crescendo with luminosity; bearing the light of Christ, made beautiful by love through humbled hearts. No longer just poetry or song, we awake [...]
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You call us to the Center to show us the certainty that there is nothing that can separate us from your love. You call us to the Circumference of love to verify its endless embrace, demonstrating the truth that Christ is All in All. Here we are cast in between love and more love. Here [...]
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by Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved. Misperception #4: Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine inside as your inner, true self. I can understand why some might think that Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine “inside.” Sometimes even the best intended teachers generate more confusion than clarity on this subject. [...]
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by Theodore J. Nottingham © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Few western people know that the idea of “inner silence” is at the heart of the earliest expressions of Christian practice and faith. This way of being has a name that has yet to be uncovered in our part of the world. The Greek word “hesychia” [...]
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When we think of spirituality, the activity of prayer is usually near to the center of what it means to be “spiritual.” We use words like meditation, visualization, imagination and intercession. Such dynamics are all summed up in the word prayer. As people of the Spirit, a crucial role we play is to offer ourselves [...]
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