Are you serving directly in this fight to save the humanity? <br> You are, of course, engag... more Are you serving directly in this fight to save the humanity? <br> You are, of course, engaged fully.<br> Just keep in your heart, "God, be in me, and be with us"<br> <br> Are you locked down at home?<br> There is a long time to pass<br> Alone, away, constrained, concerned…<br> Pass over gracefully.<br> <br> See well<br> The News, the updates, instructions, orders ...<br> The sick, the abandoned, the dying, the people in healthcare,<br> the fleeing migrants,<br> Read their pain, fear, hunger, health, fatigue,<br>
There is an urgency to reflect whether the GODs we love and serve leave us impoverished or give u... more There is an urgency to reflect whether the GODs we love and serve leave us impoverished or give us life. We are overfed by numerous images of God today. Some of these GODs defend inhuman and exploiting approaches instead of liberating the vulnerable. These disfigured faces of God are laid upon us when we are helpless, or we buy them when we want to hide. Since these masks of god possess exploiting capacity, and dehumanise their worshippers they have no place in the kingdom of justice and freedom. All these GODs bring along some essential qualities to our own person and society. Their ultimate evil lies in the fact that they feed on the poor, the unemployed, the helpless, the disappointed, the abused. In a world of victims, it is imperative to know in which GOD one is led to believe!
Hope is the sign of a true Christian. If we are able to live our life in hope, we can also find j... more Hope is the sign of a true Christian. If we are able to live our life in hope, we can also find joy though we walk through difficult times. Our life as a community, and our prayers and pious practices are to share our joys and pains, and make the encounter with God a living reality. Devotions use different things, postures, colours, tines, fragrance where by our touch of the sacred can be more sensible and meaningful. Something that is very important is the interaction through which our life receives new hope and strength. Often there is a risk that the whole life and its value may be defined as being within a number of pious practices. We may be creating a devotional world for ourselves. We cannot practice Christian hope being in a private devotional world. Christ himself lived prayerfully, but never closing himself in a devotional world. Present day spiritual leaders seem to encourage people to bind themselves to such private devotional worlds both as an individual and as a partic...
science enquiring into the nature of reality ultimately shapes our way of being human. So the way... more science enquiring into the nature of reality ultimately shapes our way of being human. So the way the science claims of itself can also influence the claim of what humanity is
Eliade is seen as a cultural historian of religions. This work attempts to see his dialectic of t... more Eliade is seen as a cultural historian of religions. This work attempts to see his dialectic of the Sacred and the Profane as a critique of modernity
Time is to be remembered and to be lived. Can we retell our life story and repicture the images o... more Time is to be remembered and to be lived. Can we retell our life story and repicture the images of our time? To anyone to whom time seems hurting .................................... A Hermeneutic Journey through Our Personal Time. The way we value our living in time is somehow bound to the metaphor we live by. Time creates and chains, but it is only through time we can be led into freedom. As we walk our life together, sustained by worthy reflections, moment to moment we creatively rewrite our story giving attention to many possible worlds. The most significant listening is to our own world which we reveal quite often in unspoken words. We cannot treat time like a toy for our amusement but time itself is a sojourner along with each of us listening to our concerns and interpretations, perhaps as if time is stranger to our time. Then in a moment of stillness, time enters into most neglected or unwanted moments to reveal their significance. Once we understand the moment deep within, time is no more a separate other but remains within as an ever shining star or an ever fragrant flower where innumerable images, though seemingly conflicting, can merge into, finding their meaning in its richness.
Are you serving directly in this fight to save the humanity? <br> You are, of course, engag... more Are you serving directly in this fight to save the humanity? <br> You are, of course, engaged fully.<br> Just keep in your heart, "God, be in me, and be with us"<br> <br> Are you locked down at home?<br> There is a long time to pass<br> Alone, away, constrained, concerned…<br> Pass over gracefully.<br> <br> See well<br> The News, the updates, instructions, orders ...<br> The sick, the abandoned, the dying, the people in healthcare,<br> the fleeing migrants,<br> Read their pain, fear, hunger, health, fatigue,<br>
There is an urgency to reflect whether the GODs we love and serve leave us impoverished or give u... more There is an urgency to reflect whether the GODs we love and serve leave us impoverished or give us life. We are overfed by numerous images of God today. Some of these GODs defend inhuman and exploiting approaches instead of liberating the vulnerable. These disfigured faces of God are laid upon us when we are helpless, or we buy them when we want to hide. Since these masks of god possess exploiting capacity, and dehumanise their worshippers they have no place in the kingdom of justice and freedom. All these GODs bring along some essential qualities to our own person and society. Their ultimate evil lies in the fact that they feed on the poor, the unemployed, the helpless, the disappointed, the abused. In a world of victims, it is imperative to know in which GOD one is led to believe!
Hope is the sign of a true Christian. If we are able to live our life in hope, we can also find j... more Hope is the sign of a true Christian. If we are able to live our life in hope, we can also find joy though we walk through difficult times. Our life as a community, and our prayers and pious practices are to share our joys and pains, and make the encounter with God a living reality. Devotions use different things, postures, colours, tines, fragrance where by our touch of the sacred can be more sensible and meaningful. Something that is very important is the interaction through which our life receives new hope and strength. Often there is a risk that the whole life and its value may be defined as being within a number of pious practices. We may be creating a devotional world for ourselves. We cannot practice Christian hope being in a private devotional world. Christ himself lived prayerfully, but never closing himself in a devotional world. Present day spiritual leaders seem to encourage people to bind themselves to such private devotional worlds both as an individual and as a partic...
science enquiring into the nature of reality ultimately shapes our way of being human. So the way... more science enquiring into the nature of reality ultimately shapes our way of being human. So the way the science claims of itself can also influence the claim of what humanity is
Eliade is seen as a cultural historian of religions. This work attempts to see his dialectic of t... more Eliade is seen as a cultural historian of religions. This work attempts to see his dialectic of the Sacred and the Profane as a critique of modernity
Time is to be remembered and to be lived. Can we retell our life story and repicture the images o... more Time is to be remembered and to be lived. Can we retell our life story and repicture the images of our time? To anyone to whom time seems hurting .................................... A Hermeneutic Journey through Our Personal Time. The way we value our living in time is somehow bound to the metaphor we live by. Time creates and chains, but it is only through time we can be led into freedom. As we walk our life together, sustained by worthy reflections, moment to moment we creatively rewrite our story giving attention to many possible worlds. The most significant listening is to our own world which we reveal quite often in unspoken words. We cannot treat time like a toy for our amusement but time itself is a sojourner along with each of us listening to our concerns and interpretations, perhaps as if time is stranger to our time. Then in a moment of stillness, time enters into most neglected or unwanted moments to reveal their significance. Once we understand the moment deep within, time is no more a separate other but remains within as an ever shining star or an ever fragrant flower where innumerable images, though seemingly conflicting, can merge into, finding their meaning in its richness.
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A Hermeneutic Journey through Our Personal Time.
The way we value our living in time is somehow bound to the metaphor we live by. Time creates and chains, but it is only through time we can be led into freedom. As we walk our life together, sustained by worthy reflections, moment to moment we creatively rewrite our story giving attention to many possible worlds. The most significant listening is to our own world which we reveal quite often in unspoken words. We cannot treat time like a toy for our amusement but time itself is a sojourner along with each of us listening to our concerns and interpretations, perhaps as if time is stranger to our time. Then in a moment of stillness, time enters into most neglected or unwanted moments to reveal their significance. Once we understand the moment deep within, time is no more a separate other but remains within as an ever shining star or an ever fragrant flower where innumerable images, though seemingly conflicting, can merge into, finding their meaning in its richness.
A Hermeneutic Journey through Our Personal Time.
The way we value our living in time is somehow bound to the metaphor we live by. Time creates and chains, but it is only through time we can be led into freedom. As we walk our life together, sustained by worthy reflections, moment to moment we creatively rewrite our story giving attention to many possible worlds. The most significant listening is to our own world which we reveal quite often in unspoken words. We cannot treat time like a toy for our amusement but time itself is a sojourner along with each of us listening to our concerns and interpretations, perhaps as if time is stranger to our time. Then in a moment of stillness, time enters into most neglected or unwanted moments to reveal their significance. Once we understand the moment deep within, time is no more a separate other but remains within as an ever shining star or an ever fragrant flower where innumerable images, though seemingly conflicting, can merge into, finding their meaning in its richness.