With Andrew Harvey
40 days & 40 nights: A Journey of Prayer and Contemplation
(and everyone else!)
Every so often, I put out a "musing" that is a guide to my writings and videos. It's that time when churches make plans for their program year, so this is a good moment to share links to my materials for worship, study, and spiritual practice. Use freely. All I ask is attribution!
But the Bible is not just a sacred book It is also human book full of the writings of the spiritually young who only partly understood
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
What do I believe? It is simple really I believe there is something much much bigger than I I call that something God, or the Sacred One, although I am not sure that an anthropomorphic image of God is helpful.
Be completely humble and gentle Be patient forgiving one another in love
When you live in nature, in the scent of flowers, in the blessed light of the day and the sweet dew of the morning, you don't have questions, you simply live and joy together with them. Your heart opens, you cry, cry, and your eyes are wet with dew. This is how this song was born, when your body, mind, and soul opens, God steps next to you in an unguarded moment, and pours her treasures into you.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
All of us have experienced mental or physical suffering at the hands of other people. But each of us has also brought suffering to others.
The professor and mountaineer Ernest Gellner told of how he once became lost. No matter how he tried to follow his map, he could not find his way down the mountain. Then he realized that his map was of the wrong mountain.
Celebrate our life together, giving birth in many ways; Father-Mother Love is with us, leading to a better day. Equal partners ‘round the table, family groups of every kind show us how to nurture kindness, new creation’s joy to find.