Jesus came to reveal our oneness our unity with the divine. He said “I and the Father are one.” This is our anthem. When we wake up to that truth we can’t reject one another. To reject another is to reject ourselves. We are living just the one life, the eternal life. Our innermost voice…
The mystics have always understood the importance of meditation. Actually nearly every religion practices some form of meditation. Thomas Merton was a great mystic of our time. He would say meditation practices often open up to the contemplative moment. In those moments we are “touched by God” in the unknowing place. He says this about…
We all know that each of us has a unique finger print. No two people have the same retinal patterns. We all have individuality, unique personalities. No two people are alike. Even identical twins have uniqueness. If we look around we see the same thing in all of creation. There aren’t two things that are…
“OUR discovery of God is, in a way, God’s discovery of us.” (Thomas Merton) The contemplatives and the mystics (which are really the same thing) talk about “living in the present moment.” Actually there are many traditions that have discovered the divine power of living in the present moment. This can be a difficult concept…
A TREE gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him. It “consents,” so to speak, to His creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree…
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden ’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent… Can you complete this verse? Do…
