Tag: maturity

Loved into Love

Posted on by Michael Rose
The daily lectionary reading for today included a passage from Galatians 5. It contrasts the works of selfishness (flesh) and that of love (the Spirit). I like the way that Eugene Peterson’s The Message renders it: “It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time:…
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Discovering Thin Places

Posted on by Michael Rose
“Thin places” is a 5th-century Celtic Christian term used to describe geographical places where it seems that space between Heaven and Earth are uniquely thin.  The Thin places could be in a building, a cave, on a mountain top or by the sea shore.  It is the place where we become acutely aware of the…
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We ARE Chosen

Posted on by Michael Rose
How many of us remember the ad-hoc choosing of teams in the school yard? “I’ll take Jimmy.”  “I’ll take Jane” and so forth until there is a lone person left and chosen by default.  There were times when I was growing up that I found myself the last to be chosen.  It is an awkward feeling to not…
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Blind Faith – Merton’s Prayer

Posted on by Michael Rose
The following is a prayer by Thomas Merton found in his book entitled Thoughts in Solitude.  Thomas Merton was an influential 20th-century Catholic author, popular spiritual writer, poet, author and social activist.  A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky, Merton was a prolific writer penning over 60 books and many essays….
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Mind the Gap

Posted on by Michael Rose
Have you ever wrestled with the way you wished things were and the way they actually are?  If you are like me, there is a tendency to go one of two ways: get cynical and wash my hands of it all or to the other extreme where I bury my head in the proverbial sand and…
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