It’s the feast of St. Thomas today 3 July, and an opportunity to reconsider the term “doubting Thomas.”
Thomas was not a doubter. Instead he was an adult seeking the verification that all adults need if we are to truly believe.
A child will believe simply because someone they trust says it is so. Adults need more.
Let’s take a moment to consider this…
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It’s easy to make the mistake of seeing life as a treadmill, day after day ups and downs, a movement through time from youth to old age, then death and beyond.
Too often if feels as if we are helplessly captive carried along by the momentum of all that is expected of us and demanded from us, and we risk falling into an existence mode, a daily rhythm of survival, enduring, coping and so the treadmill rolls on.
Over the years, and even in recent months, weeks and days, I’ve prayed many prayers which have not been answered as I had hoped.
You’ve probably had the same experience: praying and wondering if and when or how your prayer will be answered.
Bible questions still pop up regularly in quiz shows and they often cost otherwise sharp players much needed points.
I’m ready for a question asking for the two names for the last book of the Bible. The book often known as Apocalypse is perhaps more often referred to as the Book of Revelation.
It’s common (thanks to movies) to think of an apocalypse as a devastating and unwelcome time of destruction.
The pics I use on these daily posts are sometimes snapped by me, and often borrowed from free-use websites. I thought it might be interesting to move towards using only my own snaps, and then only those taken in the past 24 hours. We’ll see how I go.
I took the pic above yesterday morning on an early walk.
Perhaps we find the miracles of Jesus too difficult to understand. How can we cope with what we may not have seen with our own eyes?
Many people cope with the miraculous by reducing it to what they can understand. They say Jesus just increased the blind man’s psychological vision, or opened his eyes of faith rather than actually giving him physical sight.
Thirty years ago now I experienced a profound realization that the Holy Spirit was actively at work in my life, guiding and leading me to continue to reshape every aspect of my life and love.
I relinquished my teaching vocation in response to a deeper inner call to integrate my Christianity with the value of Psychology. I qualified as a Counsellor and grew to understand that the integration of Christianity and Psychology is God’s ‘true word’ … the essence of our innate need for verification to believe and the very heart of our evolvement as a mature adult. +
Dear Holy Spirit of Truth and Light
Help us all to become more mature in the world today with the gift of sensitivity and the willingness to grow in faith, hope and love.
Amen +