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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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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Beloved Bridegroom: Speak your voice of love in the silence that we might know the direction in which to journey toward you, even as we discover there is no journey at all. You are already here with us. Transform our perception to see in this way and inspire our spiritual practice of prayer so to [...]
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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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