Deepening Connections – Aug. 15, 2019
“Whenever created beings inhale, they receive new life. And we receive God’s breath. Inhaling is normally passive. Whoever draws breath in this way breathes wrongly, for this is taking God’s gift for oneself. Whoever pauses before inhaling, experiences it as an overwhelming gift. “We are ever created anew,” says the psalmist.” –quoted by Gordon Cosby, […]
Detachment – Aug. 14, 2019
“To let be and let go is to have no need to know what is going to happen how things are going to turn out. When one lives in the depths, one simply prefers to be open to the surprises of the moment and of all future moments, rather than to know the outcome.” –Gordon […]
To Be Creative – Aug. 13, 2019
“Creativity is a function of the inner imagination, not of the ego. The ego does not create out of itself, but gives form and expression to the creativity which comes from within. An ego out of touch with the inner world can never be creative, but only rigid, and can only mimic creativity.” –Gordon Cosby, […]
Learning to Love – Aug. 12, 2019
This week, all quotations come from the collection of Gordon Cosby’s sermons titled By Grace Transformed (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999). “Some of us have been greatly loved through the years, and we still do not know how to love in this way… There are some people who have had no security at all—some […]
