The emails that have accompanied most of the prayer requests I have received this week have been moving and inspiring.
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plainly speaking
I like the bold approach of the Jews, marching up to Jesus as he strolls between the columns: “If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
guided meditation
Here is the first of the prayer podcasts – 15 minutes of gentle reflection with a lot of silence, beginning with the sound of church bells, a traditional call to prayer.
prayer & reality
In this reflection I share some of the most helpful advice ever given to me about prayer. I hope you find it as encouraging as I have.
a room alone
“All of humanity’s problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
hidden things
I’m writing this at the end of the first NZ lockdown day and I can already see that my life could become dangerously undisciplined
on our knees
Who needs God (we think)? We can achieve all we need on our own. And then a completely unexpected event brings us back to earth. We are grounded. We are on our knees.
let’s talk it over
In the midst of good and evil, ups and downs, and through the routines and demands of life we need to be able to express ourselves and to know that we are heard.
divine chatting
…but today as I read a different reflection came to mind, and I have no doubt that it was Jesus who planted the thought in my head
living? maybe not!
It’s the feast of Ignatius Loyola today and he has helped me to see that my fears and compulsions often tragically lead me to go through days and weeks as if I’m at least half asleep
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leadership
Even the best things that life on earth can give us are not enough to satisfy the depth of desire we feel.
living in colour
Jesus is among them filling their pitiful existences with the cosmic and eternal colour.of abundant life
getting physical
The stumbling point for many is that in Jesus God took on a human body, and walked and talked and ate and drank
to live
Their hindsight became foresight, an ability to live in the present without hurt from the past and free of fear of the future.
He speaks
It is not enough for me as an adult to believe because parents and religious leaders told me so.