Finding God in the Thin Spaces
Calvin Miller
All who seek a deeper life with Christ, have experienced the terrifying-but-delicious nearness of God. The Celts knew that coming really close to God, involves an element of risk and an element of joy. Perhaps only a few times in our lives does our humanity and Christ’s Divinity come so close that only the thinnest of membranes separates heaven and earth. But the terror of such nearness is compensated for by the unforgettable joy of meeting God face to face. The fulllness of the encounter belongs only to the single heart and can never be owned by groups, nor even made very real beyond the narrow planet of a single soul who bumps into the wonder that leaves us in no doubt of either God’s realitiy or his nearness.
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The Path of Celtic Prayer
Calvin Miller
It is not fair and maybe unwise to try and reduce the differences between authentic Celtic prayer and contemporary spirituality to a few important principles. But at the risk of seeming formulaic, there is much to be gained by looking at six specific concepts of prayer born 1500 years ago in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. In this brief seminar, we will examine these six ancient understandings and ask ourselves, is there light in thie ancient paths that can still serve to illuminate our own often-dim approaches to the throne. After all real spirituality knows of no single approach to God that can not profit from looking at how these ancient, needy people prayed.