Thought for Today

Losing your cool

“I have learned that there’s no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment.” ― Ken Wilson

Divine Therapy

“As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God’s extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.” Thomas Keating

Thinking of God instead of experiencing God

“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf toContinue reading “Thinking of God instead of experiencing God”

Focus on the love relationship

“Many people want God to call them to a big assignment. However, they try to bypass the love relationship…the love relationship is why God created you. That is far more important to Him than what you do. So anticipate that God will start working with you and drawing you to an intimate love relationship thatContinue reading “Focus on the love relationship”

Experiencing God’s love

It’s not about finding ways to avoid God’s judgment and feeling like a failure if you don’t do everything perfectly. It’s about fully experiencing God’s love and letting it perfect you. It’s not about being somebody you are not. It’s about becoming who you really are. Stormie Omartian

Experience and enjoy the wonder of God

“The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.” ― Mac MacKenzie

Bible study without Bible Experience

“Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd.”― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

One of the most challenging aspects

“One of the most challenging aspects for those who are seeking to find the God of their understanding for the first time is His formlessness. It can be difficult to believe in, and connect with, something that cannot be seen. Perhaps this is because although God is in all things He is felt and experiencedContinue reading “One of the most challenging aspects”

Knowing about God

“There’s a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we’ve been told and all of the books we’ve read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.”Continue reading “Knowing about God”