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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Finding God
What is Your Image of God?
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love [God] as they love their cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God… Continue Reading “What is Your Image of God?”
Wisdom from Thomas Merton
We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton
Wisdom from the Zen Tradition
From of old there were not two paths. “Those who have arrived” all walked the same road. -Zenrin, The Gospel According to Zen
Seeking God
God guides those who seek [God’s] good pleasure into the ways of peace, bringing them out from the shadows into the light by {God’s] act of will and guiding them into a straight path. The Qur’an
Getting Perspective
I’ve learned to time things so that I am driving with a beautiful sunset off to the west as I drive home. It calms me. It gives me perspective. I think, “There is a hideous traffic jam in front of me. There are trucks… Continue Reading “Getting Perspective”
With Whom or with What Does Your Heart Beat?
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature. – Joseph Campbell
Finding God Everywhere and Nowhere
If what we need is here within creation, this does not mean that the presence of God will suddenly become obvious to us. As we have already seen, though God is in all things and underpins them as their animating source and destiny, at… Continue Reading “Finding God Everywhere and Nowhere”
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