Tag Archives: YHWH
The Stumbling Stone
Two Halves of Life: Week 1 The Stumbling Stone Tuesday, June 14, 2016 The transition from the first half of life to the second half often involves a stumbling stone. In Greek the word for stumbling block is skandalon, from which the English word scandal also comes. Originally, scandal expressed how you felt about yourself… Continue Reading The Stumbling Stone
Face to Face Knowing
Action and Contemplation: Week 2 Face to Face Knowing Sunday, May 15, 2016 Moses is the first person in the Bible who is spoken of as knowing God “face to face,” “who would speak with YHWH as a man speaks with his friend” (Exodus 33:11). And yet the Exodus text also demonstrates how coming to… Continue Reading Face to Face Knowing
Participation: Week 1 Summary
Participation: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, April 3-Friday, April 8, 2016 Contemplation can help us to know by participation in a Larger Knowing that many of us call God. (Sunday) The motivation, meaning, and inherent energy of any action come from its ultimate source, which is a person’s foundational and core vantage point. (Monday) Religion’s primary… Continue Reading Participation: Week 1 Summary
A School of Relationship
Scripture: Week 2 A School of Relationship Thursday, March 3, 2016 We all fear and avoid intimacy, it seems. It is too powerful and demands that we also “have faces,” that is, self-confidence, identity, dignity, and a certain courage to accept our own unique face. Once we accept and love ourselves, we must be willing… Continue Reading A School of Relationship
The Shape of the Universe Is Love
Scripture: Week 2 The Shape of the Universe Is Love Monday, February 29, 2016 In the beginning YHWH, the God of Israel, says, “Let us make humanity in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves” (Genesis 1:26). The use of the plural pronoun here seems to be an amazing, deep time intuition of what… Continue Reading The Shape of the Universe Is Love
Grace: Week 2 Summary
Grace: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, January 31-Friday, February 5, 2016 The passion of Pope Francis is to again make merciful love the foundation, the center, and the goal. (Sunday) Grace is not something God gives; grace is who God is. (Monday) God does not love you because you are good; God loves you because God… Continue Reading Grace: Week 2 Summary
Everything Is Grace
Grace: Week 2 Everything Is Grace Friday, February 5, 2016 Mercy is not a virtue that you choose to put on one day. Mercy has to be your deepest way of seeing, a generosity of spirit that draws from your identity, your deepest dignity, which is love. It is basically a worldview of abundance, wherein… Continue Reading Everything Is Grace
A Credo of Adjectives
Grace: Week 2 A Credo of Adjectives Wednesday, February 3, 2016 YHWH, YHWH, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and abounding in faithfulness. For the thousandth generation, YHWH maintains his kindness, forgiving all our faults, transgressions, and sins. —Exodus 34:6-7 In this marvelous early affirmation, we have, in the… Continue Reading A Credo of Adjectives