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  • Each Hour a Miracle
  • Posted by pbegeman on February 28, 2023 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Sunday February 26: What is Being Tested? #133435

    Kathleen, this message meets me at the perfect time.  I just spent the last two days visiting with friends — more social interaction that I usually have in a month. Each sessions was a few hours.  I came home today with a headache, only to read your experience. Now I am in the silence of my own home, in the net of my silent community, and I can rest. So be it. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on February 28, 2023 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Sunday February 26: What is Being Tested? #133434

    This question also spoke to me, Linda. Some “matters” came to mind that need me to step back, as Sue described in this morning’s prayer circle.  Stepping back is to be receptive, vulnerable, waiting patiently. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on February 27, 2023 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Sunday February 19: Place Me at Your Table #133407

    Thank you Linda, Jaime and Adeline for your deep and inspiring witness. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on February 27, 2023 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Sunday February 26: What is Being Tested? #133401

    Thank you, dear Sue.  You are such a witness to this effortless being and synthesis of traditions. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on February 13, 2023 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Sunday February 12: Greet Yourself Arriving #132899

    Thank you, Linda.  I agree that honest self-examination is so worth it, and even generative and life-giving. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on February 10, 2023 at 4:41 pm in reply to: Sunday February 5: The Greatest Service #132664

    You are an inspiration for me, Adeline. Always growing, always going deeper, always willing to show up. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on February 8, 2023 at 5:02 pm in reply to: Sunday February 5: The Greatest Service #132526

    Marie: We will definitely hold you in prayer tomorrow and during your recovery. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on January 30, 2023 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Sunday January 29: Broken, Blessed, Given #131994

    All of these beatitudes are so beautiful … and true.  Such a mirror for the mysterious Love that permeates all situations. Thank you all. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on January 30, 2023 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Sunday January 29: Broken, Blessed, Given #131993

    Love your beatitude! Thank you, Linda.

    Posted by pbegeman on October 3, 2022 at 6:47 pm in reply to: Sunday October 2: The Vision Has Its Time #128533

    Adeline: Your joy is infectious; I feel its radiating power.  May it infuse your difficulty conversations with compassion and deep connection. Very grateful for your ongoing witness shared here. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on September 30, 2022 at 4:05 pm in reply to: Sunday September 25: Love is a Daily Practice #128477

    What a keen observation, Linda, and what a beautiful intention moving forward.  Thank you. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on September 19, 2022 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Sunday September 18: Beckoned Beyond Our Vision #127845

    George Marsh sent this reflection and I’m posting it here for him: “I experienced cognitive dissonance meditating on this passage, which seems to conclude with verses 10-12. An adroit if dishonest servant (steward) is given faint praise by Jesus, who then challenges his disciples, asking, “If you then cannot be trusted with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches?” I think that genuine riches are the graces that God gives. The closing line we all remember: “You cannot be the slave of both God and money.” I like to think that without being a slave to money, I could still have and save money for good purposes. As George Bailey said to angel second-class Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” money comes in handy on earth. But, in my opinion, Jesus makes this point: money is very important, just as family was very important to the people of his time. But nothing is more important than our fidelity to God. God gave God’s self to us, and in response we have the grace to be God’s slaves. God emptied God’s self to become human, taking on the nature of a slave, wrote Paul.”

     

    Posted by pbegeman on August 18, 2022 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Sunday August 14 – Worth the Risk #127427

    Well said, Sue. It’s a wonder and a gift each week to gather in these electronic villages. I am grateful for your dedication and participation. – Pamela

    Posted by pbegeman on August 8, 2022 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Sunday July 31: The Grace of Inner Resurrection #127159

    Dear Ones:  this is the prayer Linda Jackim mentioned in the Wednesday Word of the Week prayer group:

     

    Joe’s Prayer is adapted from a prayer of Teilhard de Chardin. It further illuminates these words (included in this week’s reflection):

    Come into Being as you pass away.
    – Gospel of Thomas Logion 42

     

    Now that I have found the joy of utilizing

    all forms of growth to let you grow in me,

    grant that I may willingly consent

    to this last phase of communion

    in the course of which I shall possess

    you by diminishing in you.

    When the signs of age begin to mark my body . . .

    when the ill that is to diminish me or carry me off

    strikes from without or is born within me . . .

    When the painful moment comes in which

    I suddenly awaken to the fact

    that I am ill or growing old,

    and above all that last moment

    when I feel I am losing hold of myself . . .

    O God, grant that I may understand

    that it is you who are painfully

    parting the fibers of my being

    in order to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance

    and bear me away within yourself.

     

    Posted by pbegeman on August 5, 2022 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Sunday July 31: The Grace of Inner Resurrection #127109

    Dear Linda:  Bless you and bless your health and perseverance through difficulty. – Pamela

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