Living Life in a Straight Line
Life itself – and Scripture too – is always three steps forward and two steps backward. It gets the point and then loses it or doubts it . . . Isn’t it a consolation to know that life is not…
True Experience of God
…mysticism in both the East and West understands revelation to mean experience. The Divine reveals itself to humans directly and much more intensely in the happening of the moment. Then, in that moment, human beings find the real presence of…
New Living From The Heart Courses
New Living From The Heart courses have recently begun in Alberta, BC, and Washington state. The Alberta course is held at King’s Fold Retreat and Renewal Center beginning in October 2014. The BC course is held at The Lodge at Twin Creeks, Abbotsford…
The Essence of Being Human
It is in loving (or not loving) that we are (or are not) human. It is in heeding the call to love – in making life-affirming connections – that we become human. . . . . Loving is not merely…
Moving away from a self-referential life
We must get beyond even our most spiritual possessiveness, and find our joy simply in God being God. It is enough for us that he is. . . . faith punctures the self-sufficiency of our world, so that there is…
From Frederick Buechner's novel "Brendan"
Set in 6th century Wales, the elderly St. Brendan is in conversation with Gildas, a Welsh monk and scribe. Finn, Brendan’s friend and follower narrates the story: “Perhaps we’ve given all but what [God] truly wants,” Brendan said. “And what…
abba (n)
abba (n) I am trying to unlearn, and then re-learn you Me with my finite body and tiny mind, I have tried to define you, and in that, confine you to a god that serves and acts, instead of a…
Keep a Place for the Unexpected
Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring, and reserve…