Comments on: Breaking the Mystical Thermometer

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:47:20 +0000

Mysticism is it a necessity in a developing relationship with God. To what extent must our love be in God before we are blessed with a mystic experience – we may not all have such an experience; yet God loves each one of us individually. Even though we are created by God to love Him with all our heart, mind and soul He controls when and how much that is.
Mysticism is it an extra douse of His love He gives freely because He loves and wants to love Him in return and hope we use the experience fully for His good.
Should we all be hung up on signs and wonders from God before we feel and trust Him. Isn’t that what natural love of God does to the soul? It should and yet it is only with free will, reason and revelation our soul is stirred towards Him who loves us.
There is a bigger picture: The Kingdom of God,, understand why God became man,, Who is Jesus Christ.

By: Spiritual Pride « Light and Storm

Spiritual Pride « Light and Storm — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:27:38 +0000

[...] Ran across this blog post and I quite enjoyed it. Especially the part where he refers to Watts saying that the entire symphony is meant to be enjoyed by the musician and the audience. It's not a race to see who can get the highest. [...]

By: judith collier

judith collier — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:38:13 +0000

all of you are just priceless! for the first time in a long time i don’t feel odd or as my family used to call me,”the black sheep”.everything is usually fairly clear with me, i had the abilty to spot untruth even as a child, consequently i was rather obnoxious calling everyone ‘out’. i’m not quite that bad now.that’s how god and i met, in truth.just call me “judy appreciating”.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:17:40 +0000

God bless you, Judy: “I joy in his providence, at least half the time anyway!” I enjoy your rare honesty–it is very refreshing.

I hope you can find some refreshing and support here among people who are just like you in that we are seeking to please Jesus who is our “heart of hearts” and move into union with Him–just like you are! We will surely have different ways of expressing this, but I find the differences refreshing and enriching rather than threatening.

May you come to know the fullness of His pleasure and delight in your heart, which is His favorite dwelling-place!

In His love,
Peter

By: judith collier

judith collier — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:12:28 +0000

i am loving the thought on your website concerning julian of norwich with god being masculine and feminine. always having had a fighting spirit i had trouble with integrating totally with god. oh well, i thought, he knows me and called me, let him figure it out. i thought surely there was something amiss as i stood up to just about anyone but i was female and just knew god didn’t like that. probably has something to do with my generation, being 65, and not knowing how to assert properly. thank you once again,judy

By: Carl McColman

Carl McColman — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:22:58 +0000

Bless you, Judy! I’m sorry to hear about your challenges. I hope and pray that God’s grace and healing power flows abundantly in your life.

By: judiyh collier

judiyh collier — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:27:44 +0000

thank you so much peter, carl,philfoster and peasant.i never had a computer before, i know the feeling,” jesus walked the wine press alone”.the last 20 years i have taken care of family members. the latest being my blind husband and his blind brother. and now i have been diagnosed with leukemia.god has made me so strong and i relish going through the fire for him. he is my heart of hearts. i joy in his providence,. at least half the time anyway! judy

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:20:58 +0000

It can be scarey trusting someone with our soul! But here is where I’ll swim upstream and say that I think it CAN be somewhat useful to have some idea where we are in our growth:

For one thing, if (for example) we are at the “stage” where the literal disciplines don’t help us the way they used to, but we take long nourishing drafts from the spiritual fountain as a regular thing, we might not beat ourselves up quite so badly if we recognize that what we are going through could be “normal” in the spiritual life, at least in the sense that other saints have been here, too, and can recognize the territory.

For another thing, as judith mentions here, if we are somewhere between orthodoxy and heresy, it can be comforting to know that we are not insane just because of some of our experiences which seem extraordinary or maybe even a bit crazy! We hold our schemata loosely, as Carl wisely advises; but if we have SOME IDEA where we might be, it can comfort us with the notion that at least we are still on the path, going somewhere certain and good.

I recognize the danger of getting set in too firmly to a pattern, or falling into pride when we think we’re really something we’re not. I guess what I’m saying is that I think God actually takes pride in what He is making out of us, something glorious and beautiful in His sight, and it’s OK if He occasionally decides to share some of His joy with us.

Respectfully, Peter

By: judith collier

judith collier — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:31:22 +0000

thanks guys, i’ve never talked to anyone before about spirtual experiences. i tried a priest once,being roman catholic,he wanted to send me to the bishop,forget that.i was afraid i was going to be another joan of arc or something,so for 33 years i just read. the protestants helped a lot telling me i had been born again.it was good finding a catagory i fit in. back and forth between catholicism and the heretics(chuckle) i haven’t been to church for awile, need to go for communion.judy,i never had a confessor,i have trouble trusting someone with my soul.

By: philfoster

philfoster — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:41:17 +0000

Nor will the baseball card and stats show us the player’s soul. We are all apprentices – even the “masters” – on the spiritual path.