The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.”
From Everything Belongs, p. 143
One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
Richard RohrStichwörter: church theology culture
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
Richard RohrStichwörter: kindlehighlight
Men as a class appear to be "at risk," maybe even at high risk.
Richard RohrStichwörter: kindlehighlight
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard RohrStichwörter: kindlehighlight
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
Richard RohrMuch of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
Richard RohrStichwörter: christianity psychology catholicism
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
Richard RohrWhat some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship...
Richard RohrStichwörter: emerging-church
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
Richard RohrStichwörter: forgiveness spirituality
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