Now of course we want to recognize that we all fail to be righteous, but there’s a difference between simply living unrighteously while tolerating it and living unrighteously while attempting to move towards righteousness. We don’t move towards righteousness to become perfect, we do it to taste perfection.
It is the temptation of our age [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Taste of Perfection
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, philosophy on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who are you to say that?
Posted in Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, philosophy on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2008/11/feelings/?disqus_reply=4033294#comment-4033294
This is a response to the link above that Wes threw up on his blog.
First, let me get the obvious out of the way. Yes the church has, many times throughout history and into today, held up a double standard. The lack of love in how the church has approached pagans has been horribly disappointing, [...]
Letter from Vincent Donovan
Posted in 5928816, Christianity, God, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, excerpt, mission on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Loliondo Mission
May 1966
Dear Bishop,
As you know, I have been in this mission of Loliondo scarcely a year. It certainly is the most interesting and exotic mission in the diocese, located, as it is, deep in the heart of Masailand, bordering the Serengeti plains, the big game paradise of Tanzania, and of East [...]
A Desperate Plea
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shall I pray into the silence? God.
My flesh ravages my soul by day
And by night it destroys my spirit.
I am breaking apart,
I grow separated and distant from myself.
With each failed temptation
My conscience grows weary.
I need a storm within my spirit,
A burning fire to consume my flesh
And a pouring rain to clear the smog.
New Creation.
Green grass [...]
Making the Grade
Posted in Christianity, God, Spirituality, Theology, philosophy on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There was a student in a Rhetoric class who knew all the right answers but when it came time to take the test he refused to mark down the answers that the professor wanted and decided to mark the answers that he thought were better answers – at times knowing full well that the professor [...]
The Horizon
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can you imagine what it is to cross an ocean? For weeks you see nothing but the horizon; perfect and empty. You live in the grip of fear, fear of storms, fear of sickness on board, fear of the immensity. So you must drive out the fear down deep in your belly. Study your charts, [...]
maxims 1.1
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The deepest beauty is routinely missed by those who are too concerned with the superficial to sense it.
You will find that a fool mocks what is beautiful as well as those who claim to sense it.
Every sin is an act of ignorance; whether in substance or degree.
A Prayer by Meister Eckhart
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
O Trinity beyond being, beyond divinity, beyond goodness, and guide of Christians in divine wisdom, direct us to the mystical summits more than unknown and beyond light. There the simple, absolved, and unchanged mysteries of theology lie hidden in the darkness beyond light of the hidden mystical silence, there, in the greatest darkness, that beyond [...]
