Category Archives: Ponder

Love your enemy – Part Deux

Posted on July 22, 2012 by TheraP

Is it easier to forgive someone if they’re nuts?  I suspect it is.  I think the (self-identified) Joker, who killed 12 and wounded 58 is nuts.  Insane.  Just like Brevik who killed many in Norway.  Indeed one wonders if the … Continue reading →

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If they don’t come, we also welcome them.

Posted on July 16, 2012 by TheraP

genkakukigen, who describes himself as “an old, fat and lazy Zen Buddhist,” told this brief story about his Zen teacher: I once asked my Zen teacher why he didn’t make greater efforts to attract newcomers to the center he ran … Continue reading →

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Islamic Heart Work

Posted on July 10, 2012 by TheraP

Like a poem.  A gift from the heart of Omid Safi.  Whose written word set fire to my own heart: In a cool mountain night, I put on a few pieces of wood on the fire, and stood there watching … Continue reading →

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Whenever Two or Three…

Posted on April 23, 2012 by TheraP

More and more I am impressed with how Jewish was Jesus, how Jewish was the thinking of the early assembly of disciples:  Wrestling with their memories of the living Jesus and their experiences of the Risen Christ – in the … Continue reading →

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Oh, that Today you would hear His Voice!

Posted on April 16, 2012 by TheraP

Awe and wonder strike an open heart : In England there had been nothing like Taos Mountain. The field offered an unobstructed view of the mountain. I’d never seen anything like it, an awesome massif, a clump of peaks, an … Continue reading →

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Better than Hating…

Posted on April 10, 2012 by TheraP

… better than hating the unjust is to weep for their insensitivity, because even if they are worthy of hatred, the Word does not want the God-friendly soul to be disquieted by hatred, because knowledge does not work in a … Continue reading →

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Love Your Enemy

Posted on July 26, 2011 by TheraP

Breivik is insane. As soon as I read he’d lifted entire passages from Ted Kazinski, I thought:  No sane person would swallow that! (Also, it was clear from the start that while he had the brilliance to meticulously plan and … Continue reading →

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Heart Advice from a Hasidic Rabbi

Posted on July 21, 2011 by TheraP

Seek the Sacred Within the Ordinary Seek the Remarkable Within the Commonplace Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

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Why I write: Heart Streams

Posted on October 4, 2010 by TheraP

I have these verses from Psalm 137 ringing in my head: By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows* there we hung up our harps. 3 For there … Continue reading →

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Mary treasured all these things in her heart

Posted on September 24, 2010 by TheraP

Remembrance.  Pondering in depth.  Recounting for oneself the salient moments where Holy Mystery has visited us, blessing or perhaps wounding us to our core.  Over and over Luke’s Gospel points to this powerful and necessary task.  Mary’s task and our … Continue reading →

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