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- Prayer by Anamchara • The Website of Unknowing on Nov 24, 2009
I’m currently reading three books on prayer: Prayer: Conversing with God by Rosalind Rinker. A classic evangelical book from the 1950s about developing greater intimacy and faith in God through unscripted, conversational prayer. Praying Our Ex...
- Moving On to the Next Big Thing by Beadblog -Silver Dragon Creations on Nov 20, 2009
The Open Studio is over; it's not time to rest on my laurels yet.
- Charism by Anamchara • The Website of Unknowing on Nov 19, 2009
Is there a relationship between the charismatic renewal and the mystical tradition? Years ago I bought a book called Contemplation and the Charismatic Renewal. I never read it — maybe I should go back and read it now — but I liked the basic messa...
- Discipline by Anamchara • The Website of Unknowing on Nov 14, 2009
Check out my to-do list: I want to lose about 25 pounds. I want to learn to play the bass guitar (and, for that matter, the regular guitar, but first things first). I want to de-clutter the garage (ay yi yi) — and come to think of it, there’...
- Faith by Anamchara • The Website of Unknowing on Nov 9, 2009
For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. — Matthew 17:20 NRSV One concept I have run into again and a...
- Artistic Promotion, Work in Progress by Beadblog -Silver Dragon Creations on Nov 5, 2009
Why am I not panicking? Is it because instead of waiting til the last minute I have been working on signing up fellow artists and artisans, planning the promotional aspects, writing, drawing, ordering, creating? Why yes, I think that’s it. I...
- The Contemplative Life is a Heavenly Life by Anamchara • The Website of Unknowing on Nov 2, 2009
Blessed John Ruusbroec says, toward the end of his masterpiece The Spiritual Espousals, that “the contemplative life is a heavenly life.” In The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, I describe mysticism as “living in heaven consciousnes...
