Category: Spirituality
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My Quote of the Week
"O merciful Father! let me no longer reason about grace, but silently abandon myself to its operation" – from Spiritual Progress by Francois Fenelon
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Why Here? Why Now?
I’m very interested in knowing the answer to the question, why am I here? Not on earth, rather in this place at this time… There is a lot of work to do here. I really don’t want to just do business as usual. However, I realize that there are many people that will have to…
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Label: Christian
What if Christians stopped seeing themselves as Christian? What if the label Christian lost its significance? What would happen if instead of answering the question, “Are you a Christian” affirmatively, we stepped back and found some other way to define who we are? We are in a mass marketed, mass communication, mass information Culture where…
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Jesus
I use to think of Jesus a certain way and I’m finding more ‘voice’ to my views through N. T. Wright and others in the postmodern genre. Jesus is the one who tries to teach His followers the best possible way to live. Following Jesus doesn’t mean that things will be wonderful in my life,…
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My Day At the Convent
As we got out of the car I felt different. For the past couple of months my soul had been aching. I had been longing for something that was missing. For the past several years I felt I was groping in the dark. It was easy to hide this groping because those around me were…