…they couldn’t all want Archetypes coming down on them, not if they were like most of the religious people he had met. They also probably liked their religion taken mild — a pious hope, a devout ejaculation, a general sympathetic sense of a kindly universe — but nothing upsetting or bewildering, no agony, no darkness, [...]
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From time to time, I’ve written posts that ask questions about prayer. I thought that for once I’d set aside my reflexively speculative turn of mind, and write an unabashedly affirmative and practical post about it. So without further ado, and from the heart, here goes: Prayer creates an opening for God [...] I’m not sure why I picked this book up just now. The ideal time to experience it would probably be in the midst of loss. Or maybe I would find it annoying then. Maybe that’s the time when no one else’s words will do. Written as a journal in the days after the death of his wife [...] I’m reading The Magician’s Book, in which Laura Miller examines why she has continued to love the Chronicles of Narnia even after her initial feeling of betrayal that they contained so many Christian themes. I’m really enjoying it, even though I come from a different direction spiritually, one in sympathy with Lewis’s Christian faith. Like [...]
“Looking at Stars,” by Jane Kenyon The God of curved space, the dry This poem prefaces Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter. Though I’m not planning to delve much into the book [...] I find George MacDonald’s “Word of Jesus on Prayer,” from Unspoken Sermons, very encouraging. The text he’s starting from is the parable of the persistent widow. Here are a few morsels: If, instead of speculation, we gave ourselves to obedience, what a difference would soon be seen in the world! Oh, the multitude of so-called religious [...] Yesterday morning, as I was thinking about Haiti, a passage from Tess of the D’Urbervilles came to mind. Tess and her companion are working in a field that Thomas Hardy describes this way: The whole field was in color a desolate drab; it was a complexion without features, as if a face, from chin to brow, [...] If you are ever in my home, you’ll see this picture, framed and hanging at the corner beside our hallway. I got it in Berea, Kentucky, but I’ve forgotten the artist’s name. (His signature is hidden behind the mat, and the frame’s back is covered with paper.) The subject is a coal miner, and he’s [...] Father of compassion and God of all comfort, Comfort those in pain – Comfort those who suffer injury and those who suffer loss You who have known sorrow and grief. When you walked this earth and saw injury, you had compassion making the lame to walk and the blind to see. You did not blame the victim for the affliction, or condemn [...] I’ve been taking my time with Hiding from Love. Written by one of the authors of the bestseller Boundaries, it explores the intricacies of human personality from a biblical perspective. It focuses on how sometimes, we respond to injury in ways that build defenses against the very things that bring healing. Hiding from Love is [...] |
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