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How did you “silence inventory” go? What did you find out about silence in your days? Does it appear anyplace? Do you seek it? Do you avoid it? If you haven’t taken some time to consider if silence is part … Continue reading
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Think about your day, your week, and look though the days for where you have silence. Do you? Are there periods of silence in your day(s)? If you find silence in your day(s), does it come by accident, by happenstance, … Continue reading
“In a noise-polluted world, it is even difficult to hear ourselves think let alone try to be still and know God. Yet it seems essential for our spiritual life to seek some silence, no matter how busy we may be. … Continue reading
Last week a quote from Evelyn Underhill came to my inbox and I thought it worth sharing as we think about spiritual disciplines, “Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and … Continue reading
In The Spirit of the Disciplines. Dallas Willard writes, “In service we engage our goods and strengths in the active promotion of the good of others and the causes of God in our world…. Not every act that may be … Continue reading
So, is service a spiritual discipline? Is it formational? For a moment consider these words from the letter to the Philippians, “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form … Continue reading
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun may help us to see how service can take us beyond superficial activity, “… many of us look right through others and never see them let alone care about what they need. When we are preoccupied with … Continue reading
We want to continue today our thinking about service as a spiritual discipline. A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to look at the website of the Rescue Mission in Roanoke, Virginia ( http://rescuemission.net ), and was amazed at … Continue reading
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun covers a lot when she writes about service in Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us, p 144, “Service is a way of offering resources, time, treasure, influence and expertise for the care, protection, justice, and nurture … Continue reading
For the next few weeks, I would like us to explore the discipline of service. To begin our thoughts on service I have shared below a reading from the Gospel of John that many will hear at Maundy Thursday services, … Continue reading