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Calm Down

On Aug.25.07 , In Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

In the forty minutes I spent on the treadmill today at the gym, I watched CNN display headlines…………Iraqi government collapsing, 1.2 million Americans will forclose on their homes in the next two years, home foreclosures will bring on a worldwide recession, global warming is causing the world to self-destruct…….and on it went.  I thought to [...]

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Listen to God

On Aug.25.07 , In Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Formation, Unfiled by

A friend said to me the other day that he was frustrated because he kept praying and he didn’t feel that God was listening.  I said, “maybe it isn’t God who isn’t listening.”   We have this tendency to want to tell God what God should be doing.  In my mind, that is a form of [...]

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A Personal Transition: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

On Jul.03.07 , In Spiritual Direction, Unfiled by

My physical was scheduled for May but my doctor suggested we begin some of the tests in April in order to avoid having the tests all bunched up at once.  I thought that sounded like a good idea so we scheduled a stress test.  Because of family history I have a stress test every five [...]

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The Internal Climb to Freedom

On Feb.25.07 , In Spiritual Direction by

A friend of mine is teaching me a lot about climbing mountains. As a confirmed flatlander I have never understood why a person would climb anything that did not have clearly marked trails and manageable switchbacks, yet, as I hear him talk about the thrill of conquering a mountain I get a twinge that could [...]

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Freedom

On Feb.16.07 , In Spiritual Direction by

“There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who think they are freethat they are in fact enslaved.This is the even more difficult path of Jesus.” —-Richard Rohr The first question [...]

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