With all of the news about Osama, Syria, Tunisia, Japan, Egypt, Lybia, and the rest of the world, I’ve been reminded of how small my prayers can be. Usually, I pray about the daily needs confronting me and my immediate circle of relationships. There’s nothing illegitimate about that, mind you, but getting locked into my …
I was reminded this morning on the difference between meditation as practiced by Eastern mysticism versus Christianity. In Eastern pantheistic monism, the goal of meditation is to empty the mind such that there are no individualized thoughts. It is in essence intellectually contentless meditation, an attempt to become one with Reality by tuning one’s soul …
> Last week, I finished reading a book by Paul Miller called, “A Praying Life”. I’ve read a number of prayer books in my journey, but I must say that this book has an altogether different quality. I say that because Paul takes a very simple concept about prayer and intertwines it around his own …
