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Welcome to ‘A Contemporary Spirituality’.
My experience has taught me that we already know what we need to know about God, but that such knowledge lies unrecognised and unaffirmed, buried within us. If we can bring it to the surface, and learn to trust it, then it will lead us on an exciting spiritual journey, in which God will meet us in everyday people and things. This seems to me to be the core of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.
These posts are one man’s exploration of what this might mean, and of what I sense that God has shown me: that what God is offering us is a relationship not a list of instructions, God in each of us calls us to encounter, and to be encountered by, God in everything else.
What you find here is not a ‘what to’ guide, merely reflections on my own spiritual journey. My hope is they might be a stimulating and encouraging resource for you in yours. At their heart is the assumption that prayer is important, where prayer is understood to mean whatever nourishes your relationship with God. If God is love, and prayer is important, your journey will often be fun and deeply pleasurable. It can also be challenging, for God is to be encountered throughout, in the ups and downs of life, always waiting to surprise you over the next rise.
A photograph of a rough sandy path up some dunes towards a rise over which we cannot see.
The Contents page lists all the pieces in the chronological order in which they were written-the latest at the top. The Themes page groups them under topics. There is an About Me page, and a Contact page on which you can contact me if you wish to do so,
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God bless
Love, joy, peace and hope
Henry Morgan
Disclaimer
September 2014
I have recently been re-reading Belton Lane’s fine book ‘The Solace of Fierce Landscapes’, and was much taken by a quotation from Barry Lopez who is writing about the difficulties involved in reaching a mysterious desert that symbolised for him what’s most worth finding. He writes:
“There is, I should warn you, doubt…….about the directions I will give you here, but they are the very best that can be had. They will not be easy to follow. Where it says left you must go right sometimes. Read south for north sometimes. It depends a little on where you are coming from, but not entirely. I am saying you will have doubts. [But] if you do the best you can you will have no trouble.”
And it struck me that these would be good words for me to put up as ‘A Disclaimer’.
A CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY 