SITTING AND LISTENING
St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) was an early mystic and poet. He recorded much of his visions and thoughts. HIs counsel was: “Sit down alone […]
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LOVE OR NOTHING
Paul, an apostle, wrote this classic chapter called ‘The Love Chapter.’ This is The Message version: “If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy […]
SELLING OUT
Recently in the night I heard this: “I suppose I didn’t ‘sell everything to buy the field’ or maybe I kept back a few pearls… […]
NO MORE QUESTIONS
John 16 is an announcement from Jesus to his disciples about his imminent death and resurrection. The term he used was “in a little while” […]
WISDOM LIST #12
How to Choose a Melon Melon season is a rather long season and growing various varieties goes on all summer. Melons grow when it is […]
LISTENING AND OBEYING
From the Desert Fathers: “Some brothers… went to see Abba Felix and they begged him to a say a word to them. After they had […]
WHAT OTHERS THINK
I once read ‘that you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.’ This […]
EATING OUT OF BOWLS
In the night I heard ‘most of the world eats out of bowls.’ My first thought was an image of ‘feeding the poor’ and how […]
ACCOMPANIED LIFE
George Fox (1624-1691) founder of the Quaker movement wrote: ‘the accompanied life is when we know that God is with us.’ In Fox’s terminology it […]
GRACE AND THE CROSS
There is considerable frustration when we try to produce our own righteousness instead of faith in the work of the Cross. We can think we […]