Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Meister Eckhart

  • God’s Seedy People – A Sermon On Mark 4:26-34

    God’s Seedy People – A Sermon On Mark 4:26-34

    Third Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 6, Year B – Mark 4:26-34, the Parable of the Growing Seed. When you look at your life today, what’s different compared to your life a year ago, three, five, twenty years ago?  I’m not asking about circumstances or events. I am asking about you. In what ways have you Read more

  • Being Free Of God – A Trinity Sunday Sermon on John 16:12-15

    Being Free Of God – A Trinity Sunday Sermon on John 16:12-15

    Jesus said, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” Maybe there is something unbearable about God. When have you experienced the unbearable in your life? What happened? How did it come about? In what ways are you experiencing the unbearable today? Read more

  • Thanksgiving for Everything

    Thanksgiving for Everything

    Psalm 92:1. “It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to your Name, O Most High.” When I was a child, I always received a box of blank thank you notes as a Christmas gift. I didn’t have to finish writing all my notes on Christmas Day, but Read more

  • What are you Giving for Christmas?

    What are you Giving for Christmas?

    At Christmas we often think, and rightfully so, of God’s gift of Jesus to the world. We celebrate and rejoice that God has been born into this world as one of us. God is with us in a new way. God has given us himself in the baby Jesus. The early Church, while recognizing God’s Read more

  • As They Love Their Cow

    “Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not Read more

  • Mothers of God

    “We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What Read more

  • Trusting Death

    In the Episcopal lectionary the gospel for this past Sunday (John 12:20-33) has some Greeks coming to Philip and saying, “Sir we wish to see Jesus.” Philip tells Andrew of this request and together they tell Jesus. I suspect Jesus’ response is not what these Greeks had expected or wanted. Jesus responds: The hour has Read more

  • Birthing God – The Feast of the Annunciation

    The Annunciation to the Theotokos (Luke 1:26-38) is an annunciation to the entire human race that the Son and Word of God has become incarnate. What happened physically in Mary happens spiritually in everyone who lives in virginity, that is, in those who are purified of the passions. Every time we say “Let it be Read more

  • Entering the Temple of the Heart

    If the heart is the most authentic temple of God, the truest dwelling place of God, then it is also our true home. It is the deepest and most authentic part of our humanity, the place of wholeness and integration. “All things are there,” Macarius says of the heart. The heart is not only the Read more