Prayer
Talking with Jesus.
Prayer
Letting my tears flow knowing they are watering my faith and God is counting and bottling them as a sweet outpouring unto Him.
Forgiveness Prayer
In this moment of stillness,
I release the weight of past hurts and grievances,
Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the warmth of understanding.
To those who have caused me pain:
I acknowledge that you, too, were walking your own difficult path.
Your actions, though they wounded me,
Were born from your own struggles, fears, and u... See more
In this moment of stillness,
I release the weight of past hurts and grievances,
Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the warmth of understanding.
To those who have caused me pain:
I acknowledge that you, too, were walking your own difficult path.
Your actions, though they wounded me,
Were born from your own struggles, fears, and u... See more
zen eth/acc • Tweet
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let your... See more
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let your... See more
Joanna Macy • Go to the Limits of Your Longing | The On Being Project
The second thing we must do in learning to pray is believe like a child. Children are supremely confident of their parents’ love and power. Instinctively, they trust. They believe their parents want to do them good. If you know your parent loves and protects you, it fills your world with possibility. You just chatter away with what is on your heart
... See moreDavid Powlison • A Praying Life
breathe in “Abba,” breathe out “I belong to you.” breathe in “Healer,” breathe out “speak the word and I shall be healed.” breathe in “Shepherd,” breathe out “bring home my lost son.” breathe in “Holy One,” breathe out “keep me true.” breathe in “Lord,” breathe out “here I am.” breathe in “Jesus,” breathe out “have mercy on me.”
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun • Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Transforming Resources)
BREATH PRAYER DESIRE to pray a simple, intimate prayer of heartfelt desire before God DEFINITION Breath prayer is a form of contemplative prayer linked to the rhythms of breathing: (1) breathe in, calling on a biblical name or image of God, and (2) breathe out a simple God-given
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun • Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Transforming Resources)
It is not, however, one individual, but it is one Body; but Christ’s Body is the Church (see Colossians 1:24). Such longing indeed is not found in all who enter the Church; but if you have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and own in Christ that for which you long, do not think that you are the only ones, but know that there are such seeds scattere
... See moreMike Aquilina • Praying the Psalms with the Early Christians: Ancient Songs for Modern Hearts
Where the Spirit hovers, chaos is not the final word—freedom is coming.
Genesis 1:2: The Spirit hovers over a world described as tohu vavohu (“formless and void,” chaos).
When the Word is spoken, light and order break in. Creation is liberated from emptiness and darkness.
The same Spirit who hovered in Genesis is hovering still, bringing light into da