Tag: Spirit
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Toward Spirituality
When we do not know how to sense the movement of God’s Spirit, we end up relying on what is visible, on our own human movements, desires, and senses. If we cannot perceive the invisible, we inevitably create something we can see, a tangible version of what we imagine. The essential truth about our spiritual…
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Spiritual Realities
If we do not know how to discern the movement of the Spirit of God, we have to rely on the visible instead. The natural and material world, which is good in its own created existence, is but a shadow of the far more substantial, though invisible, spiritual realities. We tend to think that what…
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Lent and the Spirit
With effort and practice, we can learn to discern the movement of God’s Spirit in the world, but first we must recognize how the Spirit works within our inner selves. Our temptation is to think we can see the Spirit in the world generally, and particularly in the lives of others, when we have yet…
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Violence and the Jesus Way
Those who lack the incomparable energy of love and the strength of moral clarity, who neither pursue nor value virtue, who do not hold to the inherent and sacred dignity of all people, use violence as a tool for their own ambitions. Theirs is an intentional choice to further pursue and consolidate the power they…