Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 06/22/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition: June
22-24, 2012
| Contents: - Weekend Scripture Readings - Spiritual Guidance - Discussion Board highlights - Affiliate Web Sites - Theology Note of the Week - Spiritual Growth Resources. - Book of the Week - Saint of the Week - Joke of the Week - Web Resource of the Week - - - Sunday: Is 49:1-6; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-15; Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66, 80 R. (14) I praise you, for I am wonderfully made.  O LORD, you have probed me, you know me:you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar. Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are your works. My soul also you knew full well; nor was my frame unknown to you When I was made in secret, when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance - see http://shalomplace.org/eve/forums
for these and hundreds of other
discussions. Stillpoint: Programs in spiritual direction, contemplative prayer. Theology Note of the
Week Omniscience is an attribute of God alone. It is the quality of having all knowledge (Isaiah 40:14). God knows all things possible as well as actual because he has ordained whatsover will come to pass according to the counsel of his will (Eph. 1:11). He does not need to experience something to know about it completely. Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience represent the nature of God concerning his relation to the creation. |
Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
 Discerning
God's Will, by Philip St. Romain. Contemplative Ministries, Inc.
2012.Anyone seeking to grow spiritually would do well to learn more about discernment. One can obtain lofty degrees in biblical studies or theology, but such do not necessarily help one to live in God’s will. Indeed, the phrase, “God’s will,” holds lots of baggage for many, especially those who have suffered religious abuse. Nevertheless, we cannot dispense of the topic as it is central to any theistic approach to spirituality such as we find in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These religions affirm that not only is there a God or Creator, but that God’s nature is personal and relational. It follows that God created each of us to do some kind of work on this planet during our brief sojourn. Finding out what that work might be is the concern of discernment. (From the Introduction) Price: $2.99 - PDF version - Kindle Edition - ePub Edition (check iBookstore for availability). - - - Book (movie, CD) of the Week The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. Hyperion of New York, 2008. - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1401323251/ref=noism/christianspiritu/ - Kindle edition available.  Perhaps you have heard
professors give what they call “their last lecture”. What is attempted
is usually a summary of their achievements, telling the
world why they want to be remembered. As audiences listen, many
probably begin to ask themselves the same question: “How, why should l
be remembered? What legacy do I want to leave behind for my family, my
friends, the world?” When the author Randy Pausch was asked to give his last lecture, he was well aware that he was dying of cancer, and really did need to attend to these questions. He called his last lecture “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” His lecture wasn’t about dying; it was about living and overcoming the obstacles he met, of helping others achieve their dreams, of seizing every moment and making the most of each day’s adventures. Pausch combines humor, inspiration, and intelligence in his story. In real life, Pausch is a professor of computer science, human computer interaction, and design . He teaches in Carnegie Mellon University and inspires students to accept every opportunity to be all they can be. He inspires his students never to undertake a job they think is too lowly for them. “If you have to start by sorting mail, be the best mail sorter there is.” Of the 60 short chapters, this is the one that I place as number One. When Randy was 12 and his sister was 14, their dad took them to Disney land, gave them a small allowance, and let them wander off as they pleased to spend their money. The two decided to purchase a gift for their parents, a set of ceramic salt and pepper shakers for ten dollars. “We both burst into tears when I accidentally dropped the package and broke both pieces.” An adult saw this and told the couple to go back to the store, tell their story, and hopefully the owner will give them another set for free. They two doubted this but were willing to give it a try. Indeed the manager did give them a free set after hearing their sad story, and the children were jubilant. When they told their parents the story, Disney Land in the minds of the parents took on a tremendously supportive place, and eventually won Disney over $100,000. How? “My parents made visits to Disney World an integral part of their volunteer work. They had a twenty-two passenger bus they used to drive English-as-a- second- language students from Maryland down to see the park. For more than twenty years, my dad bought tickets for dozens of kids to go to Disney World.” A ten dollar set of salt and pepper shakers in exchange for over $100,000! In many of his lectures, Pausch includes this story, asking, “If I sent a child into one of your stores with a broken salt and pepper shaker today, would your policies allow your workers to be kind enough to replace it?” - Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review. Make the Christian Spirituality Bookstore your starting point for online shopping at Amazon.com. You can buy books, cds, videotapes, software, appliances and many other products at discount prices. As Amazon.com affiliate, we are paid a small fee for purchases originating from our web site. Every little bit helps! http://shalomplace.com/books/index.html - - - Saint of the Week - http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1428 - St. Irenaeus (130?-220)  The Church is
fortunate that Irenaeus was involved in many of its controversies in
the second century. He was a student, well trained, no doubt, with
great patience in investigating, tremendously protective of apostolic
teaching, but prompted more by a desire to win over his opponents than
to prove them in error.As bishop of Lyons he was especially concerned with the Gnostics, who took their name from the Greek word for “knowledge.” Claiming access to secret knowledge imparted by Jesus to only a few disciples, their teaching was attracting and confusing many Christians. After thoroughly investigating the various Gnostic sects and their “secret,” Irenaeus showed to what logical conclusions their tenets led. These he contrasted with the teaching of the apostles and the text of Holy Scripture, giving us, in five books, a system of theology of great importance to subsequent times. Moreover, his work, widely used and translated into Latin and Armenian, gradually ended the influence of the Gnostics. The circumstances and details about his death, like those of his birth and early life in Asia Minor, are not at all clear. - - - Joke of the Week - Two cows.... Two cows were chatting over the fence between their fields. The first cow said, "I tell you, this mad-cow-disease is really pretty scary. They say it is spreading fast; I heard it hit some cows down on the Johnson Farm." The other cow replied, "Ah, I ain't worried, it won't affect us ducks." - - - Web
Resource of the Week
The Last Lecture website - http://www.thelastlecture.com/ This site is devoted to publicizing the work of Randy Pausch (book of the week author, above), and of providing information about his life. Among other things, it provides a link to Randy Pausch's famous "Last Lecture." Thanks to the Internet, you can hear it for yourself, with captions. The quality is excellent, and so is the message. |
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