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"When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little…

"Once you label me you negate me." -  Soren Kiergegaard That one simple observation, that we know intuitively, provides the best argument against hard and fast labels that I know. It may also be the reason why people are so prone to use them … on others. When our arguments against issues or for our…

"Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery." – Gerald G. May

"The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child." – Thomas Kelly

It looks as if my life expectancy, given my lifestyle and general health, is about 89. I assume I will need to work most of those years — so that may extend things a bit … or shorten them. But I will die some time in the next 30-45 years give or take. That is…

" … I see Him walking on the waves, no shore in sight, no success, no goal, just the absolute certainty that it is all right because I see Him walking on the sea. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God. " This is from today's "My Utmost for His…

Here is the deal. God, on speaking terms if not friendly terms, asks the adversary (His, ours, everyone's) if he has thought about Job. Job is a good guy, one of the original good guys. God is asking as if He wonders if the Satan is impressed. He is not. Nor is The One surprised.…

"…we have too often sacrificed love for progress."  – Gerald May, "The Awakened Heart" I have been reading Gerry May's book at the gym. It is ideal gym reading. I read a paragraph and then it takes a set of weight lifting to think/pray/meditate it over. During the time I knew Gerry on CompuServe, I…