Jesus said 20 Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic.
You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture.
To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention.
Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred.
It’s a matter of purposely looking through the lens of love.
When you say yes to…
更多1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
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nor stand on the path of sinners,
nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s[…Blessed are those who do not follow advice which is based on wanting to do others down
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Blessed are those who don’t stop attempting to do what is right.
Blessed are those who don’t ridicule what is loving and good.
Blessed are those who delight in who God is, as shown in the bible.
Blessed are those who day and night think about
* the one who brings peace to families (like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)
* the one who brings peace to those who are abused (like Hebrew slaves in Egypt)
* the one who brings peace to those who are looking for a better life (giving them his…1-3Why do those with power seek to use it against people rather than for people?
4-7From the perspective of our Father in Heaven, the one with real power, it is laughable that people should think that this is what power is for.
Laughable, this is, if it wasn’t so serious.
God rebukes them in his anger, and points them to how power is really exercised, by His Son on a hill top on a cross8-9The offer comes out from God:…
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O Lord, so many things, people and systems seem to be against me, and more seem to keep cropping up. - how many are my foes! Many are rising against me.
Many of those who know of my faith in you are saying to me “There is no help for you in God”What do I know of my heavenly Father?
But you, O Lord, are a shield around me
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It is what others see of you in me that causes them to respect me - you are my…I say to God
Answer me when I call to you,
my righteous God.
Give me relief from my distress;
have mercy on me and hear my prayer.God replies:
2 How long will you people turn my glory into shame?
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How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?
[some of our distress is brought about by our own delusions about what is good]…1 Listen to my words, Lord, 2 hear my cry for help,
my King and my God, for to you I pray.
3 In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice and I wait expectantly.4 For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;
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5 When we are arrogant…1 Lord God - things aren’t going well in my life
and I wonder whether it is, in part, because I have, by my own actions, brought this upon myself
and am feeling your just anger and wrath.2 OK! But I wish to repent, put this in the past and find healing
because I’ve run out of energy and am in pain.3 I feel out of sorts deep inside myself and I can’t see when this is going to end.
4…
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1 Lord my God, I take refuge in you;
save and deliver me
from everything and everyone that 2 can tear me apartand yet I know that I have a certain moral strength
3 …
更多Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name.
Heavenly Father open my eyes today to see more clearly your character (your name)
and give me grace to give you honour today by displaying child-like trust.1LORD God, Our God
How majestic is your name in all the earth (and for all people)
You have given (us all) your splendour (and it is) above the heavens.(And yet) 2 Out of the mouths of children and infants
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you have…
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