One of my deepest hopes and enduring prayers is that we will all be more fully Living Spirituality throughout 2010 and the years to come.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
AMAZON HAS JUST DROPPED THE PRICE OF THE NEW BOOK BY $4.50 - SO SOME COMPETING ON PRICING IS GOOD, BUT BARNES AND NOBLE IS STILL THE BETTER DEAL. My Suggestion is not only to get this book for yourself, but also to pick up a copy for friends and family who you think might benefit. Merry Christmas to all.
For anyone who's interested:
Living Spiritual Rhythms For Today.
You can find this deal here: Living Spiritual Rhythms For Today
Monday, December 21, 2009
Reflection for the Week
At any time of year, but especially now, don't center your whole life on shopping, but focus on the birth of Christ and its significance for all of life.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
The ZigZag Café
We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Do you believe that God hides?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Spiritual Rhythms of Life for Today
The biblical text is full of a plurality of worlds. My direction here is to suggest that there are pertinent signs and resolute traces of God making himself known in a polyphonic manner. Think of the Garden in Genesis; the burning bush in Exodus; the throne theophaines in Isaiah and Ezekiel; and the resurrection of Jesus for a start. These types of manifestations, which let us know that God is there are expressed into our world, yet they go beyond it by far. Therefore, to understand more about God, it is essential to imaginatively enter these various worlds and as we read about them, to begin act within them in serving others.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Reflection for the Week
We may find it rather easy to get caught up in webs of deception. In order to counter this tendency we need to make a concerted effort, on the basis of the spiritual power at work in our lives, to bring about a Christ centered perspective and a trajectory away from our deceptive thoughts and actions, and towards a new life. Having been given the offer of resurrection, we sometimes struggle to embrace it, yet we are free to live in a community where there is no condemnation.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The ZigZag Café
We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Where have all the rebels gone? Perhaps, we don’t need them anymore? Does it seem to you that Christians should be rebels?
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Spiritual Rhythms of Life for Today
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!
LIVING SPIRITUAL RHYTHMS FOR TODAY
Saturated with spiritual power and loving wisdom, Living Spiritual Rhythms For Today is relevant, inspiring, and perceptive. Gregory J. Laughery has put together a challenging blend of anecdotes, stories, poems, and prayers that call us to serious reflection and redemptive action. This book is a spiritual odyssey; a journey of daily readings invoking a constellation of thoughts and emotions including joy and sadness, trust and suspicion, courage and fear, love and justice. Laughery develops, with critical care, piercing grace, and keen insight, a picture of life lived in community with God and others. Reading and being read by this text will open up a diversity of opportunities for a dynamic encounter with spiritual riches that point us in the direction of a transformation of who we are and what we do.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Reflection for the Week
When it is understood that Jesus Christ is the gateway to living spirituality, there are new and momentous opportunities that open up for us. Here are a few notable examples. We are given community with the Infinite-personal God by tasting living water and experiencing a new birth of the Spirit through faith in the Crucified and Risen One. When we accept the invitation to walk through the gateway, our world explodes because we confess that it is no longer centered on ourselves. And it is then that we start to find our place in living spirituality and to discover the true meaning of life in all its richness and mystery.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The ZigZag Café
We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
“This coffee is poison” can have multiple meanings: quick, get a doctor; you forgot to put sugar in my coffee; this is lousy coffee. How might we draw a distinction in interpretation between the inescapable relativity of meaning, and the escapable relativism in meaning?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Spiritual Rhythms of Life for Today
False memories make a difference for God, the self, and the other. To remember truly is to remember God and to remember God is to make an effort to remember what is true. Remembering well is remembering justly for the sake of the other. And God would have us do this, both as victim and victimizer.
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