PEace...BRING IT ALL TO PEACE...


"Every day Jesus would follow the same rhythm: withdraw for solitude, but then come back to engage by healing, feeding, caring, welcoming, binding up the wounds of this world, and implanting in people a vision of resilience, engaging with a world on fire."


-Brian Mc Laren



“God offers us quiet, contemplative eyes; God also calls us to prophetic and critical involvement in the pain and sufferings of our world--both at the same time. This is so obvious in the life and ministry of Jesus that I wonder why it has not been taught as an essential part of Christianity."


-Richard Rohr



"War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sad joy of maintaining our one-dimensional worlds."


-Joan Chittister

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE; 

AND WHOSE YOU ARE.


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CopyrightSFMC  "Tree of SPIRITUAL practices"


A TERRIBLE PRAYER



I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TERRIBLE AT PRAYING.


I FORGET.

MY MIND WANDERS.

I FALL ASLEEP.

I DON'T PRAY ENOUGH.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT PRAYER IS

OR WHAT PRAYER DOES.


IF PRAYER WERE SCHOOL...

I WOULD FLUNK PRAYING.


BUT PRAYER ISN'T SCHOOL.

IT IS MYSTERY.


MAYBE THE MYSTERY IS...

JESUS LOVES TERRIBLE PRAYERS.


MAYBE...


WHEN I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO SAY, HE SAYS WHAT I CAN'T SAY.

WHEN I TALK TOO MUCH, HE CHERISHES MY TOO-MANY WORDS.


WHEN I FALL ASLEEP, HE HOLDS ME IN HIS LAP AND CARESSES MY WEARY SOUL.


WHEN I AM OVERWHELMED WITH GUILT AT MY INCONSISTENT, INADEQUATE PRAYING

HE WHISPERS, "YOUR NAME IS ALWAYS ON MY LIPS."


I AM FILLED WITH GRATITUDE, AND MY SOUL OVERFLOWS WITH THANKFULNESS

AND I...


I...FIND MYSELF SAYING OVER AND OVER AGAIN, "THANK YOU."

PRAYING THE MYSTERY.



- MIKE YACONELLI