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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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 [...]
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Click Here to Listen Our daily prayer for Monday, August 30, 2010. © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.
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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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The grey morning light of this mid-December day greets the northern hemisphere as a reminder of the approaching winter darkness. Light is essential for life, so when it shortens and stretches itself toward the south, we awake more keenly to our sustaining sun. We give thanks, Lord Jesus Christ that regardless of what happens in [...]
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A pastoral prayer for you: The light of God surrounds us. The life of God sustains us. The love of God enfolds us. The power of God protects us. The presence of God nurtures us. The promises of God inspire us. We are not alone. Our life is not meaningless. In the beginning was meaning. [...]
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By Peter T. Haas Loving God: We request joyful hearts for the work week to come, and guidance toward wisdom in all that is to be done. We desire to come under the authority of your providence. Teach us. Guide us. Give to each of us the mind of Christ. Open our hearts to receive [...]
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