The Prayer Ping: How Technology Changes Our Conversations With God
Yesterday, my adult daughter, Martha, texted me to ask for prayers for a co-worker who had just died of cancer. The words in the gray…
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Dorm Room Prayer and Blessing
Daily Prayer It’s back to school for the first (or final) time! Is this year feeling a little more daunting than others? Are you hoping…
St. Patrick and the Snakes: Memphis Style
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I figured I’d talk about my recent adventure to Snake Pit, which naturally will tie into prayer routine. This…
Five Spiritual Resolutions for 2013
New Year’s resolutions make my liver quiver. Yet each year, I’ve begun with hope and the resolve to point my life in a new direction,…
I need to pray more
I need to pray more. It’s a thought that goes through my head about once a day, yet more often than not I don’t act…
What Works: The Examen
It’s remarkable (though not really) how easily we can forget the emotionally charged things that happen in a day. The problem is that if we…
What Works: Talking with God
Monica Rozenfeld just posted in her blog here in Busted Halo about finding a new way to pray conversationally with God, thanks to the an idea from the book Eat, Pray, Love. It reminded me of an experience I had years ago. I had always been fine with the “God is everything” and “There is that of God in each of us” kinds of conceptions of God, but I was finding it hard to turn my will and my life over to a concept or The Universe; and I was being told that it would really help if I could learn to relate to God in a more personal way. I’d always struggled with the idea of a God personal to me. I’d always rejected anthropomorphizations as childish.
Friday of the First Week of Lent
Return to the Lent calendar. Lent Quotable Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.— Satchel Paige, 1974 Fast from…
My praying causes a body high (and sometimes an erection). Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong, or should I be worried?
First of all, I’d like to encourage you in your desire to pray on a daily basis. Daily prayer is an important way of maintaining…
Have I sinned in receiving a reading from a psychic? Do psychics have anything to do with evil spirits?
Thanks for your question to Busted Halo. Whether you sinned or not depends on whether you intended to do evil or turn away from God…
