January 21, 2010 Daily Devotional
Meditation Video: Relax Snow – Kokin Gumi – Zen Garden
How many mystics have suffered from feeling abandoned by God! In reality, God didn’t abandon them; it was they who failed to remain conscious of his presence. God never abandons us; it is within our own consciousness that these [...]
Few experiences in life compare with waking up in the morning after a snowfall and looking outside. The sight is stunning, the landscape glorious and beautiful, and the feeling one has is nothing less than sublime. Only after modernity with its high-powered engines, tampers with winter’s wonder, does the snow become filthy and unpleasant.
Where does [...]
Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit around and pick blackberries. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A nature lover’s blog with lots of info and photos: http://crammed-with-heaven.blogspot.com/
Every action of our lives touches some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Song: Sure As the Wind by Libana (video)
Meditation Video: Relaxing Sounds of Wind in the Meadow
Feast Day of Brother Lawrence (Roman Catholic observance)
God does not ask much of us. But remembering Him, praising Him, asking for [...]
by Owen Waters
When I was a child in Sunday School classes, I was taught to view God as someone very personal. We were given an image of a human-like God who personally watched over each and every one of us. That was long before the Hubble Space Telescope started to show us how incredibly huge [...]
“Most of us have to taste our need in a fierce sort of way before our hungers jar us into turning our lives over to God…. In the Divine Arms we become less demanding and more like the One who holds us. Then we experience new hungers. We hunger and [...]
“If we really fully belong to God, then we must be at His disposal and we must trust in Him. We must never be preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to be. God is there.”
- Mother Teresa
