Are we teaching what to see or how to see? Richard Rohr on getting in on more of God.
Lenten Reflection: Day Fourteen, Love Inventors
“I know I can never stop the war, but I can stop in my heart and the hearts of the children”
– Maggie Barankise
Lenten Reflection: Day Thirteen, Bankrupt
“Either I’m a loving man, or I’m nothing, I’m bankrupt.” Brennan Manning on discipleship and spiritual bankruptcy.
Lenten Reflection: Day Twelve, Receiving Grace
Dale Ryan on our inability to receive.
Lenten Reflection: Day Eleven, Dualism
How can a Baptist who loves the Scriptures be a racist? Richard Rohr on the cause and effects of child-like, dualistic thinking and the role of contemplation to grow us out of our first level, false self created identity.
Lenten Reflection: Day Ten, Salvation
Why do we keep cleaning the outside of the dish when it’s the inside that matters? Richard Rohr on salvation and the renewing of the mind.
Lenten Reflection: Day Nine, Be Still
“Be still and know that I am God.” Glennon Doyle Melton, author of the NYT Bestselling Carry On, Warrior and founder of Momastery.com, encourages us to “be still, show up, and be still again.”
Lenten Reflection: Day 8, The Sacred Dance
“You have to do your survival dance before you get to your sacred dance.” Richard Rohr on the ego and identity. “When you don’t have your identity In the Kingdom of God, you seek smaller kingdoms.”
Lenten Reflection: Day Seven, Mentoring
Jena Vanier on mentoring and “non-violent” communication.
Lenten Reflection: Day Six, Preparing for More
Lent is not about scarcity, it’s about preparing us for more…for resurrection. Dale Ryan invites us to gift up shame for lent and prepare ourselves, as it says in Ezekiel 36, for a new heart of flesh.