Cruciform love…5/11am

Posted on May 11, 2010 by mrpaul

Cruciform love is…being committed to knowing people, because you can minister only in very limited ways to those whom you do not know.

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Cruciform love is…

Posted on May 10, 2010 by mrpaul

Cruciform love is…not keeping yourself so busy with you and yours that you have no practical time to love others.

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Book Review: Souvenirs of Solitude

Posted on February 11, 2010 by 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. Continue reading →

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Transcendent Causes

Posted on January 5, 2010 by mrpaul

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? Continue reading →

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