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Advent Daily Prayer for Sunday, December 5, 2010

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 [...]

Advent Daily Prayer for Saturday, December 4, 2010

  O God: May our words reveal the presence of love. May our understanding deepen through silence.  Expand the meaning of each word of scripture so that it leads us to the fullness of wisdom enlightening our being and casting illumination upon our present and future way of living. Your work in us and our [...]

Part 3: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

  by Rev. Peter Traben Haas    © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.   All Rights Reserved.          Misperception #3: Centering Prayer is dangerous.     Centering Prayer is not dangerous, but it can be disruptive. Centering Prayer is disruptive to the parts of us that wish to resist God’s love and grace. These parts, psychologically speaking, might be called the [...]

Prayer Sonnet for Friday, June 11th, 2010:

God of Prayer: Kiss us, each one, with the passion of your healing love felt in the silence of our inner room. We have been betrayed by the lie that we don’t have enough time. We have denied you for sleep, work, family, friends, sports, leisure, self. Everything belongs, and plays its part, yet healing [...]

Daily Prayer and Reflection for Friday, September 11th, 2009

© By Peter T. Haas In solemn remembrance of moments seared with shock, we wish to connect more deeply with the meaning of life. We wish for personal knowledge and direct experience with purpose and meaning. It is in pain where we feel most vulnerable to despair and yet it is in despair where we [...]

Daily Prayer for Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

“Take delight in the Lord and the desires of your heart will be given.” Psalm 37.4 Beloved Holy Trinity:  Increase our desire to delight in you. Cleanse the filter of our will so that it desires what delights you. Fill our minds with impressions that inspire delight and wonder so that we live in correspondence [...]

A Bridge: Crossing Over into Contemplative Christian Territory

 The following is an exerpt from the forthcoming book  The God Who Is Here by Peter T. Haas © 2009. To contemplate is to see. The contemplative life is one in which God is seen. In this present life, absorbed with its trials and temptations, we cannot clearly see God. Yet, there is a way in [...]

On the Bible

© By Peter T. Haas At the turn of the 20th century, there was one English translation of the Bible used by Christians and the church, the King James Version. In 1881, an updated translation of the King James was published titled, The English Revised Version. But by the end of the 20th century, there [...]

The Mystic Stream through the Christian Tradition (C.E.), Part 1

Brief highlights of the mystic stream begining with Jesus.

Shine Your Love When You Hear of Hatred

© 2009 Peter T. Haas In the news, we hear of fear, hate and violence.  These powerful forces can fester in human minds and hearts with tragic consequences. The human condition is capable of keeping us enslaved to these powerful negative forces. But there is another way. It is the way of awakening. It is [...]

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