There is no one-way prophecy, no speaking without listening or listening without speaking. The flow must go both ways, or it is not divine flow.
04304 – No One-Way Prophecy
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04123 – Western Individualism?
I suspect that Western individualism has done more than any other single factor to anesthetize and even euthanize the power of the Gospel. Salvation, heaven, hell, worthiness, grace, and eternal life all came to be read through the lens of separate ego, crowding God's...
03752 – Jesus & Hypocrites
That is why Jesus criticizes hypocrisy more than anything else. Jesus is never upset with sinners, but only with people who pretend they are not sinners. Check this out, story by story, in the Gospels. This is surprising and even shocking!" from Things Hidden -Richard...
03728 – Transformation
Transformation has little to do with intelligence, willpower, or perfection. It has everything to do with honest humility, willingness, and surrender.
03417 – Problem Solved
It’s Christmas! The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days. Not only is it “always Advent,” but, now, every day can be Christmas because the one we thought we were just waiting for has come once and for all.
03285 – A Loser’s Script
Many religious people think that it’s all a merit badge system—all achievement, accomplishment, performance, and perfection. The good people win and the bad people lose. Of course, once we cast anything as a win-lose scenario, the irony is that everybody loses. Why...
03161 – God vs. Boxes
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes. --from Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
03124 – A Bogus Version of the Gospel?
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control, power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often are given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food...
03057 – Bad & Better
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
03056 – Such a Love Does Exist
People who know God well—mystics, hermits, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found as an abusive father or a tyrannical mother; God is always a lover greater than we dared hope for. How different from the “account...