OpenSourceSpirituality
A blog by slottering
Blog description:
OpenSourceSpirituality is intended to be a Collaborative Community where we may safely explore Spirituality.
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OpenSourceSpirituality ranks 820 in Africa and 530 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 1534, and 1617 according to page views:
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Prayer based on 1 Corinthians 13
Love is patient;for our quick-temperedness:Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Love is kind;for our indifference towards others:Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Love is not envious;for our petty jealousies:Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Love is not boastful;for our pretentiousness:Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Love is not arrogant;for our opinionated views -Lord, have mercy:Christ, have mercy:Love
Prayer of the Despised
Today we come to you, Lord, we, the despised. We are not a sorry procession, but a repugnant one. We do not even arouse compassion or hatred, tenderness or sympathy. We are simply despised; we disgust people. The leper arouses compassion. The fiercest criminal stirs up hatred or terror.
Will you come and follow me (The Summons)
Will you come and follow me if I but call your name? Will you go where you don't know and never be same? Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known, Will you let
The Sout Project
This is a first for this blog.I am not a prolific blogger (I prefer the more interactive environment of Facebook and Twitter) and I am not good at putting my thoughts "on paper". I am more of a relational person - I enjoy one-on-one or small group interactive
There’s a wideness in God's mercy
There’s a wideness in God's mercyLike the wideness of the sea;There's a kindness in God's justiceWhich is more than liberty.There is grace enough for thousandsOf new worlds as great as this;There is room for fresh creationsIn that upper home of bliss.For the love of God is broaderThan the measures
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples.
The Furious Longing of God
"The apostle Paul may have understood the mind of Jesus better than anyone else who ever lived. He sums up his whole understanding of the message of Jesus in Gal. 5:6 when he writes, 'The only thing that matters is the faith that expresses itself in love' . .
Based on Psalm 84
Bombs overseas and murders in our streets;families with homes one day are homeless the next.O, Lord, our souls yearn, even faint to worship you.Blessed are those who dwell in your house;we are forever praising you!Demonic displacements in our citiesand unrighteous gentrification in our towns!O Lord, our souls yearn, even
On Prayer
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridgeAnd walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,Above landscapes the color of ripe goldTransformed by a magic stopping of the sun.That bridge leads to the shore of ReversalWhere
Prayer and Life
There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we may be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs. But deep within, behind the scenes, at a profounder level, we may also be in prayer
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