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Category: Mystery

God holds our prayers in outstretched hands ...

One thing I despise is simple answers to questions about prayer. There is something that rings so false to me when people act like they have prayer and God all figured out. As if God could ever be "figured out." As if prayer is like some kind of cosmic slot machine. This is why I […]

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Saturday selects ...

A brief thought of poem for the weekend, friends ... "We belong to a Mystery far grander than our little selves and our little time." (Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life)

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Risk the questions ...

I read this short essay over and over and over again and seek to live it out every day. Finding New Questions We have ceased trying to tie up all loose ends. We have discovered that life does not need to be neat. We have more questions than answers, and this is a great delight […]

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Bigness in the smallness ...

Straight up Padraig O'Tuama today, no commentary. The Zulus have it right, though, in one of their names for God. They call God uNkulunkulu, translating loosely as Big-Big. When I heard that, I wondered at the genius who began to speak of the unnameable in such a way, and then I thought of my friend […]

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The Bible ...

So many questions these days about the Bible, and what certain parts of it mean … So many opinions on the Bible and all kinds of arrogant announcements that certain folks have ALL the answers about what it all means ... Know what? I don’t have answers. I actually have more questions than answers. The […]

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Welcome to Alice at Dawn. My short posts are meant to be regular reminders to keep walking, to keep living, to continue to listen to the voice deep within your spirit that whispers ... this is the way. Walk in it.

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