Methods of Praying 
Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 7, Speaking From Silence(0)
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Speaking From Silence
“Talk is cheap,” grumbled a man in front of an airport television after Haiti’s recently returned president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, spoke of peace and reconciliation as key issues for the remainder of his interrupted presidency. Are words cheap or do we speak them cheaply?
One [...]
Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 6, Eating in Solidarity
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Eating in Solidarity
Most of us spend a good bit of our waking (and even dreaming!) hours thinking about, planning, preparing and eating food. It’s one of those very mundane tasks like reading the newspaper and washing behind the ears. What we eat and how we [...]
Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 5, Walking With Jesus
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Walking With Jesus
We are accustomed to saying, “I’m going to take a walk”–a phrase which points to a kind of possessive, “I’m in control” attitude. Perhaps it’s because we usually view walking in terms of going somewhere, accomplishing something, getting from here to there. What [...]
Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 4, Breathing the Breath of God
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Breathing the Breath of God
One of the post-Resurrection accounts in John’s Gospel says that Jesus extended his peace to the disciples and then breathed on them saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” It is the very same breath of God that the Creator breathed into the [...]
More in this category
- Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 3, Seeing Through God’s Eyes
- Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 2, Contemplation
- Five Ways to Pray Always: Part 1, Introduction