Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer As we pray the Lord’s prayer and say, “Thy will be done”, so we often wonder just what is God’s will for me? Maybe we have a decision to make and we need discernment to know what direction to take. Jesus found his daily nourishment from knowing…
Lately I have had this simple thought regarding the spiritual search of men in our day. “Men desire to know experientally the love of God.” There is a quiet, hidden, and at times desperate longing in the soul of many men, crying out, “there must be something more to the Christian life then I am experiencing.” They…
Devotions based on Haase’s book Living the Lord’s Prayer Another characteristic of kingdom people is Surrender to the Present. Jean-Pierre De Caussade writes a lot about this and said, “True spirituality is the ready acceptance of all that comes to us at each moment of our lives… What God arranges for us to experience at…
Devotions based on Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer As we go through life praying Thy kingdom come, we are planting seeds of peace, love, and justice in our own small way. Haase mentions characteristics of keepers of his kingdom. First is an awareness of God’s love and then sharing that love with others. They…
Devotions based on Haase’s book Living the Lord’s Prayer We pray thy kingdom come but what does that really mean? In the beginning Adam and Eve lived in an idyllic paradise where all they had all their needs met and basked in the blessings that God had laid out for them. But when they sinned,…
Devotions from Living The Lord’s Prayer by Albert Haase “The way toward God is the way of downward mobility. St Benedict said, “Our proud attempts at upward climbing will really bring us down, whereas to step downward in humility is the way to lift our spirit up towards God.” This means that we need to…
One of the Christian authors who has been the most help for me in my journey during the last ten years has been psychologist, David Benner. He has opened my spiritual eyes to aspects of the Christian life that I never fully grasped. His insights, especially into knowing the the love of God has been…
Devotions from Living the Lord’s Prayer by Albert Haase “To hallow God’s name is to walk the way of humility as we adore God’s presence, with the awareness of our sinfulness.” Names are sacred . A person’s relationship to us is expressed by the name he calls us. Names express the level of familiarity and…
I like to take prayer walks and often go a couple miles in one direction before turning around to come back home again. One day as I was walking and about to turn around, it was like a picture of my spiritual journey… My life is now more than half over and I’m on the…
Devotions from Living the Lord’s Prayer by Haase Because God has taken on flesh and blood in the incarnation, we Christians are challenge to adopt a deeply contemplative vision of each other. “We are called to look beyond the superficial appearances of hairstyles and first impressions, to see and reverence in our neighbor another dwelling…