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In this post I want again to start with a quote. This is from William Shannon, “Wordless prayer…..is humble, simple, lowly, prayer in which we experience our total dependence on God and our awareness that we are in God. Wordless prayer is not an effort to ‘get anywhere,’ for we are already there (in God’s…
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Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer As we pray, Lead us not into temptation, we acknowledge that we all experience temptation that comes in different degrees but is always enticing and seductive. We often rationalize and justify our actions when we yield to the temptation. John Cassian, describes 8 thoughts Satan confronts us…
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Devotions for 2-3 from Haase’s book on Living the Lord’s Prayer As we have been wounded we need inner healing. The first step is that it is always done in the presence of Jesus who is the Divine Physician. He is the one who heals, comforts, and consoles us. Secondly we need to review the…
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I want to begin this post with some thoughts from M. Basil Pennington, a Cistercian monk, who taught on Centering prayer, “God is infinitely present. He will not push himself into our lives. He knows the greatest thing he as given us is our freedom. If we want habitually, even exclusively, to operate from the…
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.Devotions from Haase’s book Living the Lord’s Prayer To be sensitive to the hurt of another’s heart is the essence of merciful compassion. Our very eyes can show compassion to another, even when they are not asking for forgiveness. In trying to understand the hearts of others and accepting them with compassion, we sometimes discover…
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Devotions from Haase’s book on forgiveness When we ask in the Lord’s prayer for God to forgive us we are showing we are aware of our own sinfulness and need. Our forgiveness of others is a paradigm for God’s forgiveness of us. Jesus is remembered as saying that justice is not served by getting revenge…
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In my my last post I ended by saying in order for men to have a “heart” connection with the love of God, we will need to learn to “receive” and “see.” For us to get “unstuck” so we can communion with God, that is, have a relationship beyond thoughts, perceptions and feelings, we are going to have to pay attention to our hearts. Heart is the innermost…
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Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer As we think about the part of the Lord’s prayer of Forgive us our trespasses, we are aware that God doesn’t withhold mercy from anyone. “Don’t set limits to the mercy of God. Don’t imagine that because you are not pleasing to yourself, you’re not pleasing to…
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Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer When we pray “ Forgive us our trespasses” we are recognizing that God frees us from our guilt and forgets our past. In, fact, no sin is written in indelible ink! There is debilitating guilt and there is healthy guilt. Debilitating guilt is when we allow our…
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Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer When we pray “Give us this day our daily bread” it is not just an act of humility but it is a commitment to become daily bread for others. Jesus often ate with those who had been ostracized and condemned by the religious leaders. In his table…