Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

We thank Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You    and Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb   for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. It is a privilege to share our work with them and their followers .   Monday Musings - The Real Jesus (Originally posted on November 26, 2018 [One of the one hundred thought-provoking and faith-stirring quotations you will find in Pondering Tidbits of Truth - Volume 3 .]  "The real Jesus was radically counter-cultural and unbelievably attractive. He had crowds following up and down the shore of the Sea of Galilee to listen to him speak, sometimes for several days. They would carry their loved ones on stretchers for miles, just to bring them into his presence. At his word, 'Come, follow me!' men would leave their livelihoods, their families, and all they knew to accompany Him, not having any clue where he was heading. (Photo©Michael Seagriff) Once the idea th...

[One of the one hundred thought-provoking and faith-stirring quotations you will find in Pondering Tidbits of Truth - Volume 3 .]  "The real Jesus was radically counter-cultural and unbelievably attractive. He had crowds following up and down the shore of the Sea of Galilee to listen to him speak, sometimes for several days. They would carry their loved ones on stretchers for miles, just to bring them into his presence. At his word, "Come, follow me!" men would leave their livelihoods, their families, and all they knew to accompany Him, not having any clue where he was heading. (Photo©Michael Seagriff) Once the idea that Jesus is a warm cuddly bear, who basi­cally loves us so much that He indulges all our vices with a benign shrug of the shoulders, is replaced by the Jesus who loves us so much that He was crucified to save us from those vices, who overturns tables when we're being abused by money-changers, and who tells us to pluck out eyes and...

( (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. St. Catherine of Siena “I long to see you making your home in the cell of self-knowledge, so that you may attain perfect love, for I know that we cannot please our Creator unless we love him, because he is love and wants nothing but love. If we do know ourselves we find this love. Why? Because we see our own nothingness, that our very existence is ours by grace and not because we have a right to it, and every grace beyond our existence as well - it is all given to us with boundless love. Then we discover so much of God's goodness poured out on us that words cannot describe it. And once we see ourselves so loved by God, we cannot help loving him. And within ourselves we love God and our own ratio­nality, and hate the sensuality that would take inordi­nate pleasure in the world.” (From...