MrPaul

While reading Souvenirs of Solitude by Brennan Manning, I was reconnected with a mind and heart that I was introduced to years ago by Rich Mullins and the album A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band.

The book opens with a poem by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The first lines read “We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is a friend of silence…” If ever we in the US were ready for this, it is now. Read more…

Last evening my wife and I started reading a new book; Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp. One of the first paragraphs stood out to me, it included the word transcendent, one that I’ve been thinking about the past months in connection to what drives and motivates us. Where do you take our cues from? Read more…

Here we are at the brink of a new year. I was only 10 years ago that we were all wound up about Y2K and whether or not airplanes would fall out of the sky, buying generators and stocking up on sugar, eggs, and bread in case the banks and stores shut down at the stroke of twelve. Read more…

In the beginning of the a book by Brennan Manning I read this:

Silence

We need to find God
and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. Read more…