Wednesday, September 30, 2009

More Thomas Merton -

Meditation is sometimes quite difficult. If we bear with hardship in prayer and wait patiently for the time of grace, we may well discover that meditation and prayer are very joyful experiences. We should not, however, judge the value of our meditation by "how we feel." A hard and apparently fruitless meditation may in fact be much more valuable than one that is easy, happy, enlightened, and apparently a big success. - From Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton

Worship is, I would offer, similar in that we do not attend as consumers but as disciples. If we judge the worth of a sermon or worship service by "how we feel," we are completely missing a basic understanding of what it means to make a committment to Christ.

Marinated pork loin tonight and a discussion about whether or not we are becoming more uncivil in our conversations with one another.

See you tonight!

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