Tag: Spirituality
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Renouncing a Vocation
Somehow, I have to give up this thing that I love above everything else on earth because the love of God is greater… to renounce the purest of all vocations simply because it is not the one God has chosen for me – to accept something in which it seems likely that my highest personal…
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Alphonsus Rodriguez
I found this post (over at Provocations) so inspiring I just had to link to it. At the age of 40 Alphonsuz Rodriguez’ life just unraveled: “His wife died in childbirth, followed shortly by the deaths of his mother and his other children, and the family business failed.” But did he turn his back on…
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Pride
What is pride? Here’s C.J. Mahaney’s definition in his book Humility: True Greatness – Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon him. Making use of an insight of Charles Bridges, Mahaney goes on to say that pride is “contending for supremacy…
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Work and Spirituality (2)
In the previous post we had a Trappist monk’s perspective on work and spirituality. Now here is a 17th century puritan’s take on the subject, but with a slight twist, as his concern is more on remaining in one’s calling: Devote yourself to performing your duty in the place and calling God has given you.…
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Work and Spirituality
Many Christians would not consider their daily work as “spiritual”; what is spiritual, they think, are preaching, praying, and the like. Thomas Merton in Life and Holiness thinks differently: … one’s daily work is an all important element in the spiritual life, and that for work to be truly sanctifying the Christian must not only…
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To Be Little
To be little, to be nothing, to rejoice in your imperfections, to be glad that you are not worthy of attention, that you are of no account in the universe. This is the only liberation. The only way to true solitude. — Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas
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True Spirituality
There is great gain in godliness with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world; but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content. (1 Timothy 6:6-8, RSV)
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 