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• Dont Just Settle

  
  Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote — Authority: 139
  You get what you settle for. - the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to you in life. - John F. Kennedy Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. ...
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• “What we are asked to do is to love…”

  
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  Salaam and Greetings of Peace: “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” ~ Thomas Merton ...
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• Imagining a poetry of Christian spirituality…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 136
  I am still gathering poetry submissions for inclusion in an up and coming poetry collection to be published by Proost- please keep them coming in! Proost is a company set up by Christians to gather together lots of the creativity coming out of the left field ragged edge of the church here in the UK. [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Merton and Berry 5/5/13

  
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  A Dialogue Between the Two Thomases Kathleen Deignan, CND On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Homecoming/Sophia Garden will present a day-long immersion into the thoughts of two great spiritual teachers: Thomas Merton OCSO and Thomas Berry, CP. For more information please contact Sr. Jeanne Clark, OP at 631-842-6000, Ext. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Heaven In A Croissant

  
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  I watched a vision of raw pleasure the other day so simple, so unrehearsed, I won’t forget it. I’ve accumulated end-of-loaf pieces of wheat bread over recent weeks and decided it was time to gather them up and take them to my goats and donkeys at morning feeding down at the barn. As I gathered up the left-overs ...
  4 weeks ago

• Prayer of Thomas Merton - Prayed at the dedication of renovated wing at Sanctuary Hospice - Tupelo, MIssissippi

  
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       Today, I was asked to represent our parish at a special prayer service at Sanctuary Hospice in Tupelo Mississippi.  We are very supportive of the hospice ministry, and have several parishioners who are very active as volunteers out there.  I found this prayer from Thomas Merton that I prayed at the prayer ...
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• Retreating

  
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  Over the next few days I am going to be at the Abbey of St. Joseph with other Methodist clergy for a time of spiritual retreat. Everyone does their own thing at these events and I choose to read. Here are a few of the books I am bringing with me.Without planning I realized all three of these are keeping with my ...
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• Your Creative Intentions: The Monday Post ~ April 15, 2013

  
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  If you aren’t doing your creative work as often as you’d like, recommit to a regular creativity practice. Regularity — a daily practice, if possible — is one of the best ways to stay in touch with how you make meaning. What are your plans for creative practice this week? Given the specifics of your ...
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• Does God = Consciousness?

  
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  1960s Paperback Edition of “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander” A reader writes… Carl, I am a theoretical physicist by training and have struggled with the idea of supernatural concepts like God. Even so, contemplation has increased my sense of God being part of me, which I like very much. So here is my ...
  5 weeks ago

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