When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably, the most dire...
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Thursday, 29 November 2012
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
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committed people can change the world., Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade, was an American cultural anthropologi...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth
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Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth
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Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth in holiness. A Rule establishes a rhythm for life in which is helpful for being formed by the Spirit, a rhythm that reflects a love for God and respect for how he has made us. The disciplines which we build into our rhythm of life help us to shed the “old self” and allow our “new self” in Christ to be formed. Spiritual disciplines are means of grace by which God can nourish us. Ultimately...
Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.
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Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.
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Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture. However, I believe that a Rule should grow from the positive aspects of our life, not what we perceive to be our failings. We should discern it in conversation with God and others in our community, and we must make God the focus of our Rule (don't focus on negative images of ourselves) and then we move in the directions in which we feel God's calling. A Rule of Life should be a response to being loved by God in the first place, and feeling...
To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.
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in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human., To live in communion
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To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain hum...
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Friday, 23 November 2012
Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity.
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Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity.
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Benedict (like Bill W) realized we must understand our dependence on God before being restored to sanity. “We are like a child on its mother’s lap,” Benedict writes, “cut off from nourishment, helpless, left without the resources we need to grow in the spirit of God.”&nb...
