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Message of the Day
He, who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), "Aids to Reflection"
(What stirs in you as you read this? What is revealed to you about yourself in the stirring?)
Lenten Study Series
Topic: God and I: Exploring the connections between God, Self and Ego (spiritual theology)
Learning Process: 9 written conferences; private discussion forum for participants; video conferences.
See http://shalomplace.com/inetmin/GodandI for more information and registration options.
JAS 4:1-10; PS 55:7-8, 9-10A, 10B-11A, 23; MK 9:30-37
R. Throw your cares on the Lord, and he will
support you.And I say, “Had I but wings like a dove,
I would fly away and be at rest.
Far away I would flee;
I would lodge in the wilderness.”
“I would wait for him who saves me
from the violent storm and the tempest.”
Engulf them, O Lord; divide their counsels.
In the city I see violence and strife,
day and night they prowl about upon its walls.
Cast your care upon the LORD,
and he will support you;
never will he permit the just man to be disturbed.
Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
. . . When Jesus finds out that his own people have been ignoring his teaching and instead fighting with each other over importance, he gives a lesson on what is important. He says that the greatest is not the richest or most powerful, the greatest is the most helpful: the opposite of the one at the top. He brings in a child – the least powerful, most vulnerable – someone who can give no benefit but requires the most help. And he says whoever helps a child, the least important of people, will be receiving Jesus and God himself.
Instead of hating each other, we should be loving God, and the best way to love God is to love his people. What better way to show God our appreciation than to appreciate and respect, even love, his creation. Loving each other, treating each other decently – even the poor, especially the poor – is the best way to have satisfaction in our lives. Those who love the lowest, least important people, those who give with no expectation of benefit, will receive the greatest benefit. The things of the world are not the most satisfying, but the love of God can satisfy all.
- by Tami Whitney
Spiritual Reading
Selected Quotes from St. John of the Cross on the Journey of the Soul to God by Contemplation - from Living Flame of Love
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/ 1602064296/?tag=christianspiritu
Stanza 3. #31. If formerly it
sought sweetness and fervor, and found it, now it much neither
seek it nor desire it, for not only will it be unable to find it
through its own diligence, but it will rather find aridity, for it
turns from the quiet and peaceful blessings which were secretly
given it its spirit, to the work that it desires to do with sense;
and thus it will lose one and not obtain the other, since no
blessings are now given to it by means of sense as they were
formerly. God secretly and quietly infuses into the soul loving
knowledge and wisdom without any intervention of specific acts. And
the soul has then to walk with loving advertence to God, without
making specific actrs, but conducting itself passively, and making
no efforts of its own, but preserving this simple, pure and loving
advertence.- compiled by James and Tyra Arraj
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