A Daily Spiritual Seed
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Message of the Day
". . . whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your whole heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in, and governed that body and soul, which He took from the Virgin Mary."
- William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Love [1752-4]
(We [you] are the body of Christ. Let Him live and work in you this day.)
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 1:12-18; PS 94:12-13A, 14-15, 18-19; MK 8:14-21
R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.Blessed the man whom you instruct, O LORD,
whom by your law you teach,
Giving him rest from evil days.
For the LORD will not cast off his people,
nor abandon his inheritance;
But judgment shall again be with justice,
and all the upright of heart shall follow it.
When I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your mercy, O LORD, sustains me;
When cares abound within me,
your comfort gladdens my soul.
Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“Blessed are they who persevere in temptation, for when they have been proved, will receive the crown of life.” Most of us want that crown of life, but do we want to persevere when we are being tempted by our darker side? Some of our temptations may be considered normal. For example, my desire to “have it all together” may be a desire that many of us have, yet it leads to darkness. I am not in fact perfect, and most of us humans realize that we are not perfect, at least this side of heaven. So we need to be intentional about rejecting the leaven of the Pharisees, who prided themselves on their purity and their knowledge of the law. There are many traps for me in this, as I want to practice my life of faith and be known as someone who follows Jesus. This can lead to a kind of perfectionism or thoughts of “I’m better than THAT person.” Obviously these kinds of thoughts do not come from the good Spirit, but rather from a place of feeling inadequate or fearful. Jesus invites me to be human, and acknowledge my fear and my inadequacy without comparing myself to another person.
- by Marty Kalkowski
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 2. #9. The soul feels
its love to be increasing and growing in strength and refinement
to such a degree that it seems to have within it seas of fire which
reach to the farthest heights and depths of the spheres, filling
it wholly with love. #29. Death is the "old man," namely, the employment of the faculties -- memory, understanding and will -- and the use and occupation of them in things of the world, and the occupation of the desires in the pleasure afforded by created things. All this and the exercise of the old life, which is the death of the new, or spiritual life. In this new life, when the soul has reached the perfection of union with God, all the desires and faculties of the soul are changed into Divine operations.
#30. Understanding is now the understanding of God. The will has now been changed into the life of Divine love. The memory has in its mind the eternal years. The desire now tastes and enjoys Divine food, being now moved by the delight of God.
- compiled by James and Tyra Arraj
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