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A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality
Month: June 2021
ACCESSING THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH LECTIO DIVINA
If would be nice, if you want to talk to the Holy Spirit all that you need to do is make a phone call or Email. For humans, that would be nice, but the Holy Spirit is not limited to human convention. Instead, there… Continue Reading “ACCESSING THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH LECTIO DIVINA”
MY GOALS FROM NOW UNTIL FOREVER
GOALS FROM NOW UNTIL THEN I have compiled a list of several things I want to accomplish before I move realities. Here they are in no order of importance. I have a bucket list (hopefully one without holes.) Do you remember the song about… Continue Reading “MY GOALS FROM NOW UNTIL FOREVER”
LECTIO DIVINA FOR AN EIGHT + YEAR OLD LAY CISTERCIAN
These days, it is successful in waking up and say Praise to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit now and forever. The God who is, who was, and who is to come at the end of the ages. –Cistercian… Continue Reading “LECTIO DIVINA FOR AN EIGHT + YEAR OLD LAY CISTERCIAN”
THE DIVINE EQUATION: HOW AN END-USER USES THE FORMULA FOR FOREVER TO GROW FROM SELF TO GOD
I must take this opportunity to remind you once again that these ideas are just the reflections of a broken-down, old temple of the Holy Spirit trying to make sense out of the physical universe, the mental universe, and also the spiritual universe. The… Continue Reading “THE DIVINE EQUATION: HOW AN END-USER USES THE FORMULA FOR FOREVER TO GROW FROM SELF TO GOD”
THE LITTLE THINGS ARE SOMETIMES HUGE
I did something this morning at 3:30 a.m. after I went for my bathroom break. I sat down on my bed, getting ready to do one of my Lectio Divina’s for the day, when I thought about the monks at Our Lady of the… Continue Reading “THE LITTLE THINGS ARE SOMETIMES HUGE”
MOMENTS WITH MICHAEL iii: HOLY SPIRIT DUMP
At some obscure part of my brain, probably the frontal lobe, I had recalled the topic of “a data dump”, meaning that I just get a bunch of random thoughts. It is something like taking a drink of water from an open fire hydrant.… Continue Reading “MOMENTS WITH MICHAEL iii: HOLY SPIRIT DUMP”
MOMENTS WITH MICHAEL ii
During the day, I sometimes get flashes from the edge of time (my way of saying that the Holy Spirit drops an idea before me to see what I will do with it). Here are some unrelated thoughts I had recently. The spiritual way… Continue Reading “MOMENTS WITH MICHAEL ii”
THE DIVINE EQUATION: THE PARADIGM OF THE TRINITY
I am finally at peace over whether I will ever understand the Trinity. The answer is NO because the only way to even approach that problem is The Mystery of Faith. I just let it go and use the Trinity as Christ intended me… Continue Reading “THE DIVINE EQUATION: THE PARADIGM OF THE TRINITY”
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