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Category Archives: Christian Meditation
Doers of positive change
If you’ve followed the Ottawa Senators’ Hockey Club over the last year you will have endured a roller coaster ride. From the high, you will have tasted the sweet drippings of a near-berth in the Stanley Cup Championship Series sixteenth … Continue reading
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Tagged action, belief, bible study, Bishop Susan Johnson, Christian Meditation, Christianity, church, contemplation, culture change, discipleship, doers, ELCIC, encounter, Erik Karlsson, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, faith, followers, God, God's faithfulness, Gospel of Mark, grace, group dynamics, healing, health, healthy church, inner game, interpersonal, Jesus, journey, journeys, lectio divina, Lutheran, mission, NHL, Ottawa Senators Hockey Club, relationship, resistance, Sea of Galilee
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A spirituality of fierce landscapes
The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. (Psalm 97:1-2) Which is mountain? And which is cloud? … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Meditation, photos, Theological Reflection
Tagged baptism, bible, biblical, Christian, church, cloud, Cloud of Unknowing, clouds, contemplation, dove, faith, fortress, God, God’s voice, Hebrew scripture, hope, Jesus, journey, landscapes, life, love, Moses, Mount of Transfiguration, Mount Sinai, mountains, mystery, mysticism, New Testament, Old Testament, path, perspective, photos, pilgrimage, prayer, Psalms of David, rocks, Sunset, vision
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Lent
All we need to do during this season of Lent, is just slow down a bit. Displaying a delightful play on words, this photo of Dorchester Ave in Ottawa suggests in the French language what drivers must do in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Christian Meditation, church calendar, community, devotion, Easter, God, Jesus, Lenten season, life, lifestyle, meditation, mission, other, photo, prayer, relationship, service, slow
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Leaning in
The man with the unclean spirit is ordered by Jesus to “Be silent!”[1] After Jesus speaks to him, the unclean spirit obeys, and leaves the man. The man is thus transformed, healed, made whole in this dramatic Gospel encounter with … Continue reading
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Tagged A J Casson, art, authority, bible, Capernaum, carousel, Christian, church, community, ego, evil spirit, Gospel, group of seven, Jesus, lean in, leaning, Mark, maturity, meditation, New Testament, obedience, playground, prayer, preaching, psychology, round-a-bout, self-awareness, sermon, silence, spiritual growth, spirituality, stillness, synagogue, white pine, Worship
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Traveling stones: a pilgrimage lesson in letting go
In the sixth century Saint Benedict said, “A monk should have death always before his eyes.”[1] ‘Death’ doesn’t need to refer only to our physical demise at the end of life but to any loss experienced in life. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Ocean, Benedict, bible, Cabo da Roca, Camino de Santiago, Camino del Norte, Cape Disappointment, church, coast, Corinthians, Dead Man's Cove, death, discipleship, failure, faith, Fisterra, following Jesus, glory, God's reign, grace, hiking, hope, Isaiah, journey, learning, lectionary, letting go, life, Lisbon, Long Beach Peninsula, Lord's Prayer, Lutheran, maturity, Muxia, New Testament, Old Testament, Pacific Ocean, Paul, peace, pilgrimage, Portugal, prayer, preaching, Richard Rohr, ritual, sermon, Spain, spiritual growth, spirituality, stones, teaching, trust, walking, Washington, water, west, wisdom, Worship
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A wintery spirit
The winter of 2018 has been record-setting, so far. And we are barely one week into the new year! Did you know it was Ottawa’s coldest New Year’s Day since records began in 1873? At 8am on January 1st, the … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, apophatic, baptism, Baptism of our Lord, bible, biblical geography, Canada, Christian, Christianity, church, contemplation, desert, geography, God, good news, Gospel, Hebrew, hope, Jesus, journey, kenosis, letting go, maturity, mystic, New Testament, Old Testament, Ottawa, photography, photos, preaching, promise, psychology, revised common lectionary, sermon, spiritual growth, story, sufi wisdom, transformation, water, Winter, Worship
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