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It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
~ Michael Leunig
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Tag Archives: God
Brother Weeps Shares Two Awakenings
A LENTEN REFLECTION ~ 7
Once, when Brother Weeps was quite old, a group of young people invited him to speak to them on the Christ-life. They sat together in the shade of a cypress grove. Brother spoke and they listened. Then, he invited their responses. Read more [...]
Dream Me God
It’s not you who should solve my problems, God, but I yours, God of the asylum-seekers. It’s not you who should feed the hungry, but I who should protect your children from the terror of the banks and armies. It’s not you who should make room Read more [...]
Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (2)
AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY
~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 2. . . continued from December 3, 2019
MYSELF: I’d like to pick up where we left off. Read more [...]
Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (1)
AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY
~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 1
MYSELF: Well , first, thank you for sitting down with me.DAN: Of course, my pleasure. Read more [...]
More on Praise & Musica Memento 4
. . . Continued from previous post.
Then the Creator formed the red earth creature*
out of the dust of the ground
and blew into the creature's nostrils the breath of life,
and the creature became a living being. ~ Gen. 2: 7
Let everything that Read more [...]
Living Through, With, and In Credible Praise
By the time I was in college, the Charismatic Renewal was in full swing in the Catholic Church though I had not yet been exposed to it or its more demonstrative style of worship. In addition, I was one of a handful of Catholics attending a Protestant Read more [...]
Come, O Freedom, Come, O Death ~ Back Copy
"Come! Death. I trust you
as much as I have trusted life.
Now come and sweep me into
your mystery"
~ Sr. Jeanette Wasinger ~
A Catholic sister learns she has stage 4 lung cancer, inspires me with her faith-filled response to it, blesses me with Read more [...]
Musica Memento 3
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly, to love kindly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
~ Micah 6:8
The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]
Rainer Maria Rilke ~ A Life-Line
GO TO THE LIMITS OF YOUR LONGING
By Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody Read more [...]