Signposts http://signposts.cowpi.com Words pointing… Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:48:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en If we do not transform our pain… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/if-we-do-not-transform-our-pain http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/if-we-do-not-transform-our-pain#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:48:20 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=509 If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/if-we-do-not-transform-our-pain/feed God comes to us disguised as… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/god-comes-to-us-disguised-as http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/god-comes-to-us-disguised-as#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:44:11 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=508 God comes to us disguised as our life.

— Paula D’Arcy

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/god-comes-to-us-disguised-as/feed The Bible will not make transformation dependent on… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-bible-will-not-make-transformation-dependent-on http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-bible-will-not-make-transformation-dependent-on#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:36:45 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=507 The Bible will not make transformation dependent on cleverness at all, but in one of God’s favorite and most effective hiding places—humility.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-bible-will-not-make-transformation-dependent-on/feed Still into fearing God and controlling God instead of… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/still-into-fearing-god-and-controlling-god-instead-of http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/still-into-fearing-god-and-controlling-god-instead-of#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:31:54 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=506 Most people in my experience are still into fearing God and controlling God instead of loving God.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/still-into-fearing-god-and-controlling-god-instead-of/feed Overexplanation separates… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/overexplanation-separates http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/overexplanation-separates#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:29:07 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=505 Overexplanation separates us from astonishment.

— Eugene Ionesco

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/overexplanation-separates/feed Grief Work http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/grief-work http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/grief-work#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:22:30 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=504 Grief Work

“Grief work” [is] holding the mystery of pain and looking right at it and learning deeply from it.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/grief-work/feed By some other means than forgiveness… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/by-some-other-means-than-forgiveness http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/by-some-other-means-than-forgiveness#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:19:17 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=503 By Some Other Means Than Forgiveness

As long as you can deal with evil by some other means than forgiveness, you will never experience the real meaning of evil and sin.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/by-some-other-means-than-forgiveness/feed The Medium and the Message http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-medium-and-the-message http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-medium-and-the-message#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:17:13 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=502 Jesus Christ is both the medium and the message.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-medium-and-the-message/feed The lie and absurdity of sacrificial religion… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-lie-and-absurdity-of-sacrificial-religion http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-lie-and-absurdity-of-sacrificial-religion#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:12:46 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=501 Jesus was precisely the “once and for all” sacrifice given to reveal the lie and absurdity of the very notion and necessity of “sacrificial” religion itself.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

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— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/presence/feed Life begins at… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/life-begins-at http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/life-begins-at#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:34:12 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=499 There’s an old saying, “Life begins at forty.” That’s silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

— George Burns

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/life-begins-at/feed Ideas result from… http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/ideas-result-from http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/ideas-result-from#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:32:18 +0000 iHermit of CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=498 Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

— Ray Bradbury

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