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Saturday, 06 June 2009

Sunday, 31 May 2009

  • QUOTE FOR PENTECOST

    from Jessica's blog

    I had a professor who told us once that if the Holy Spirit is sometimes hard to see or hard to talk about, it is because he is like this: he is like a man standing behind a blackboard, on which he has written the name JESUS, and all you can see of him is his hand reaching around the board to point at the name.
    The Holy Spirit does not draw attention to himself, he draws attention to Jesus.

Thursday, 21 May 2009

Saturday, 02 May 2009

  • from Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader

    Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys, and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?


Wednesday, 29 April 2009

  • Madeleine L'Engle on prayer

    I've been reading Two-Part Invention and liking it more than her fiction.

    He writes that there are prayers that one is not allowed to pray, such as my 'Please, dear God, don't let it be cancer.' Rabbi Kushner says I can't pray that way, because right now either it is cancer or it is not.  But I can't live with that. If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

    ~

    God does not wave a magic wand... My head understands this. My heart still cries out.  And I remember my seventeen-year-old prayer... when my father was dying: "Please, God, do whatever is best for Father. Please do whatever is best for Father." And that, of course, underlies all our praying. Do what it best, even if at this moment I cannot know what that best may be.

    ~

    Ellis Peters: "He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding in his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, all those people who were in stress or grief."
    ...I am less and less specific in my prayers, simply holding out to God those for whom I am praying.


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