Personal reflections – Page 11

For Anonymous, with love and pathos

November 14, 2011 2 Comments

by Heidi Shott After the bomb went off, we pulled our chairs in a circle and looked at one another in stunned silence. It was

Trust in God’s Mercy

November 3, 2011 No Comments

“I have found and have known, by Your great mercy, that the love of a man’s heart that is abandoned and broken and poor is

But for me the experience was about working together in community. The fact that it was “for the church” was the bond: And in much of what we were doing here, we were learning how to be together, trying to be, truly the “church of Our Saviour” — which is also the name of our parish.

Learning from silence

October 16, 2011 5 Comments

What might God tell each of us in the silence, that we’ve never heard before, because the noise of the familiar was too comforting?

The hairs of our heads are numbered

October 13, 2011 No Comments

God knows infinite things, all things, and heeds them all in particular. We cannot “do two things at once,” that is cannot give our full

Grace is free

September 15, 2011 No Comments

“The horos–the standard or definition–of Christian life is ‘the imitation of Christ according to the extent [or ‘measure’] of His incarnation’ (Longer Rules XLIII). Basil

The Cathedral on 9/11: Living “safely,” then and now

September 13, 2011 1 Comment

What we learned at that time was something we’re learning again: that ‘safety” is not something we can guarantee ourselves. We hadn’t really seen that as clearly before September 11, 2011 as we have seen it since

The burningness of love

September 8, 2011 No Comments

Once on Pentecost Sunday I received the Holy Spirit in such a manner that I understood all the will of Love in all, and all the modes of this will of the heavens and of heavenly things, and all the perfection of perfect justice, and all the shortcomings of the lost; and with regard to all, I saw the will in which they then were, either of truth or of falsehood.

You are love

August 30, 2011 15 Comments

I’m frustrated when my fellow theological liberals engage the literalist/fundamentalist dilemma with a blithe proclamation, “It’s all metaphor.” The things that matter most to me in life are themselves, real, immediate, compelling, and yet they point beyond themselves.

Life-creating death

August 25, 2011 1 Comment

“Love and hatred are not merely subjective feelings, affecting the inward universe of those who experience them, but they are also objective forces, altering the world outside ourselves. By loving or hating another, I cause the other in some measure to become that which I see in him or her. Not for myself alone, but for the lives of all around me, my love is creative, just as my hatred is destructive.

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