#sacred rhythms

[mrsm-h]

🌞 Summer Solstice 2025: A Sacred Turning Point.

In the UK, the Summer Solstice takes place on Saturday, 21st June 2025 at 3:42 am.

Solstice energy is potent from 18th to 24th June, peaking on the 21st and gently receding as we enter the next seasonal phase — a time for grounding, reflection, and inner preparation.

Late summer calls us into steady growth, quiet consolidation, and deeper harmony with our soul’s rhythm.

#SummerSolstice #SacredRhythms #SeasonalWisdom #HonourYourLight

[garymillar]

Another reason we are so tired is that we are always working hard to figure things out rather than learning how to cease striving, how to be with what is true in God's presence and let God be God in the most intimate places of our life - which is, in the end, the only thing that will change anything. We're busy trying to make stuff happen rather than waiting on God to make stuff happen.

Ruth Haley Barton

Sacred Rhythms

[digitaldion]

'Most of us are not very good at sitting with longing and desire—our own or someone else’s. It feels tender. It feels vulnerable. It feels out of control. It is a place where one human being cannot fix or fill another, nor can we fix or fill ourselves. It is a place where only God will do. The longing for solitude is the longing for God. It is the longing to experience union with God unmediated by the ways we typically try to relate to God. By “unmediated” I mean a direct experience of God with nothing in between: an encounter with God that is not mediated by words, by theological constructs, by religious activity, by my own or other’s manipulations of my relationship with God. It is the practice that spiritual seekers down through the ages have used to experience intimacy with God rather than just talking about it. Solitude is a place. It is a place in time that is set apart for God and God alone, a time when we unplug and withdraw from the noise of interpersonal interactions, from the noise, busyness and constant stimulation associated with life in the company of others.'

- Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms

[justinbfung]

An old way to read the Bible

An old way to read the Bible

I shared yesterday about my friend Chris’s new app Parallel Bible–“the world’s first social, visual Bible”–and I’d encourage you to check it out; it’s pretty cool.

This week I’ve also been diving into an ancient practice of reading the Bible called lectio divina–or “divine reading” in Latin. It’s one way that Christians over the centuries have used to hear and listen to God through the words of…

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[superminisan]

Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat... Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully for that.

Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude", quoted by Ruth Haley Barton in "Sacred Rhythms"

[superminisan]

It is one thing to tell someone about something that you have wrestled with and overcome in the past tense; it is quite another to invite someone to be with you in your current struggle when you aren't sure of the outcome! Relationship at this level is truly transforming.

Ruth Haley Barton, "Sacred Rhythms"

[superminisan]

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.  I do not see the road ahead of me.  I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in everything I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire and I know that if I do this You will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.  Therefore I will trust You always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Thomas Merton, “Thoughts in Solitude”, quoted by Ruth Haley Barton in “Sacred Rhythms”

[superminisan]

Many avoid the path of self-knowledge because they are afraid of being swallowed up in their own abysses.  But Christians have confidence that Christ has loved through all the abysses of human life and that he goes with us when we dare to engage in sincere confrontation with ourselves.  Because God loves us unconditionally - along with our dark sides - we don't need to dodge ourselves.  In the light of this love the pain of self-knowledge can be at the same time the beginning of our healing.

Andreas Ebert, quoted by Ruth Haley Barton in “Sacred Rhythms”