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Prayer/Meditation

The Arrival

December 7, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

In “the Arrival,” a 1996 Sci-Fi, Charlie Sheen stars as a radio astronomer who scans the heavens for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence. His radio telescope is trained on the stars, hoping to pick up a narrow band of radiation that would belie the communication of an advanced civilization beyond our solar system. A poster on […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Grace, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Seeing, Waiting

Losing My Mind

November 30, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

I am at Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat center outside Philadelphia. Like all retreat centers it is a refuge of quiet, a place of reflection, a deliberate exit from the fast lane of contemporary life. The buildings are Pennsylvania fieldstone, circa 1930, small, spare, rather cold (Quakers waste nothing, especially fuel oil), but with roaring […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Letting Go, Prayer/Meditation, Reality--trusting it

Ninety in Ninety

November 7, 2012 by David Anderson 12 Comments

Ninety in ninety. That’s what my friend—I’ll call him Gary—had just accomplished a week earlier. Ninety AA meetings in ninety days. We sat in a coffee shop last night and I heard his story. There are a thousand ways to be a drunk, but one outcome. You can’t stop drinking even though it’s killing you […]

Filed Under: Change, Daily Practice, Forgiveness, Healing, Prayer/Meditation, Surrender

A Teaspoon of Sand

October 5, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

Ted Ryan, a friend of mine, told me about an experience that goes under the category of “the things a child can imagine.” He was giving his four year-old son breakfast before he went off to work, but the boy was just sitting there. He wasn’t touching his cereal. So Ted says to his son, […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Change, Character, Choice, Daily Practice, Faithfulness, Prayer/Meditation, Uncategorized

The Old Well

September 14, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

“God is an underground river,” Meister Eckhart said, “that no one can dam up or stop.” I love that image of God because it completely flips the dominant image of God “up there.” When we first imagine a deity, God is always “up,” always distant, the Sky God of nearly every ancient religion. Until, gradually, […]

Filed Under: Abundance, Daily Practice, Prayer/Meditation

Too Busy Not to Pray

August 13, 2012 by David Anderson Leave a Comment

I sat in a group a few weeks ago—it was a group of clergy, and someone whose ministry I really respect began to speak of the challenges to his spiritual life. Don said, “Parish life can take it out of me. I get busy, then I get overwhelmed—and my spiritual life suffers. I ‘don’t have […]

Filed Under: Change, Daily Practice, Faithfulness, Prayer/Meditation

Clocks and Clouds

July 20, 2012 by David Anderson 4 Comments

“All problems are either clouds or clocks,” said the eminent philosopher Carl Popper. There are two different kinds of systems, he meant. To understand a clock you can take it apart, examine its individual pieces, understand it or fix it. A cloud is different. You can only observe it as a dynamic, shifting, morphing whole.  […]

Filed Under: Daily Practice, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Reality--trusting it, Seeing, Silence

Tethering the Cat

July 5, 2012 by David Anderson 3 Comments

Traditions and rituals that surround prayer and worship are essential. I can’t sit for prayer in the morning until I have made a cup of tea and a small plate of fruit. It’s part of my ritual. I do it most mornings before I am actually awake! But this is the glory of ritual—when I […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Change, Daily Practice, Prayer/Meditation

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