An invitation from Jesus to get intimate with life:
“You’re blessed when you get your inside world - your mind and heart - put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.” Matthew 5.8
An invitation to reality and thereby transformation:
“If you view reality from the standpoint of others, then we’ll experience complete conversion, namely, inner and outer transformation. We will have ‘turned around’ and that is the biblical meaning of metanoia.”
Simplicity by Richard Rohr, pg 99
An invitation to prayer:
"Prayer is freedom and affirmation growing out of nothingness into love. Prayer is the flowering of our inmost freedom in response to the Word of God."
Thomas Merton. Contemplation in A World of Action (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1973: 345
An invitation into the Mystery:
“For, the Spirit is the One who makes all things new,
And ever awaits our ‘yes’ to the Dance!
Those who offer themselves freely, without reserve,
Are guided through life‘s rough paths.
Light beckons to light; divine dignity
Adorns them in holy array.
The Promise holds true forever, to all generations!
As Companions of the Most High, come!
Claim your home in the Universal Heart.”
Psalm 110, Psalms for Praying, Nan Merrill
These gentle invitations on this particular day in my life pilgrimage seemed significant. And, like the colours and wonder of summer, the invitation to life more deeply, to the Mystery and Holy Presence, I am drawn to their gentle beckoning and embrace.
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Hello:
Greetings from the Philippines. Got the link to your website from Best and Worst. I'm adding you up to my blogroll so i can easily drop by and drink from your spiritual wellspring.
Peace to you,
Desertfish
Thanks for stopping by Desertfish. Thanks for sharing your thoughts over at your site.
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