Mark E. Thibodeaux
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“The Bible warns time and again against the fallacy that holds that I can be close to God without being close to God’s people. It condemns any sort of God-and-me spirituality that does not result in an outpouring of love toward others: (Is. 58:5-7).”
― Armchair Mystic: Easing Into Contemplative Prayer
― Armchair Mystic: Easing Into Contemplative Prayer
“Not only do I need friends who share in my desires and convictions, and not only do I need mentors who can support, encourage and advise me as I journey to God, but I also need a community with whom I can participate in the proclamation of the Word and the celebration of all that the Words means to me. Like the baby Jesus, I need a "holy family" to belong to. I need to belong to something bigger than myself. If I don't, then I run the risk of developing a sort of God-and-me spirituality with no support systems to hold me up when I am weak, no prophets to challenge me when I am wrong and no party-mates with whom I may celebrate the Lord's goodness in my life.”
― Armchair Mystic: Easing Into Contemplative Prayer
― Armchair Mystic: Easing Into Contemplative Prayer
“The graces of a healthy prayer life will reverberate in the actions of my everyday life. I throw a stone into a quiet pond. The stone is small and the spot it touches on the surface of the water is, too. And yet its ripples expand to every corner of the lake. From that tiny spot where the rock first made contact, waves are born and are carried to the very edges. In the same way, the effects of my short period of intimate contact with God will ripple through to the very edges of my day. Many people do not understand this basic connection between their prayer lives and their everyday lives.”
― Armchair Mystic: Easing into Contemplative Prayer
― Armchair Mystic: Easing into Contemplative Prayer
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