By Thom Temperli Count me as an idealist. I actually tend to believe that there is a better way to do most things, that things can be balanced and optimized, even if they can’t be perfected. (The perfection idea was hard to let go of, though.) This idealism tends to spill over into all aspects [...]
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Beloved One and Trinity: Your hints of presence are among us. Your hidden embrace seduces many. You press into us in the silence and leave your mark of love. Let not lovers befriend other suitors, lest passions flare. Daylight hours are for truth-seeking. The darkness is for God-surrender. Give yourself up to this consummation. All [...]
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Beloved Jesus Christ: Shocked by the difficulties of life that arise seemingly without any visible cause, we begin our search for a way out. Under your mercy, the accumulation of failures becomes our best teacher, showing us how to live more free. In your resurrection, we find the possibility of warding off the harmful [...]
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By Thom Tempereli If I met God, would I like Him (or Her, or It, or Them)? If I really knew who God was, as opposed to having to go on what everyone who claims to speak for him (something I’m afraid I have often done), would I actually want to serve that God? This [...]
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We begin this Holy Week in the name of surrender to the holy one of love, our Lord and Life-Source Jesus Christ. We begin this Holy Week in the hope of personal awakening to the peace of God that brings Christ close in and through each of us gathered together in silence and prayer, sealing upon [...]
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And now O God of perfect timing, enter into each of our hearts and find the city-center in us ready to receive and surrender to your love in its embodied form and in its eternal formlessness . We have been preparing for the entrance of your Word through this Lenten Journey and now we feel [...]
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Guiding Grace of God: Saturate each one of us with wisdom to choose the ultimate good. Draw our hearts into prayer so to discern your guidance for the decisions of this day. Show us how to use the night hours of silence and the day hours of waiting to seek your counsel in all [...]
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Life Giving God: Bring your force of life into the darkness of our bellies where the flat, heavy boredom of depression drains our energy and paralyzes our will. Release the pent-up life in the center of our being enabling us to say YES to you and the path to life. Take away the depression in [...]
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Click here to listen to the prayer: Most Loving and Almighty God: We enter into this month with thanksgiving in our hearts for the nourishment we have received during the long summer days. Now, we feel the seasons shifting and familiar life-rhythms returning. Give us force of will to fulfill our new intentions for ourselves [...]
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Image by linkfinger via Flickr Holy Trinity: Send comfort to those who work in situations that demand more than they give. Help each one that is on the verge of falling apart experience that you are even there. We cannot comprehend the suffering of life, so help us to trust you through it, with the [...]
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