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06 June 2006
This seems to be the best time to start this blog, since I do appear to have a bit more free time than usual—though what we call free time has a way of disappearing very quickly, and we find ourselves busier than during our regular work times!
I have been encouraged by a number of friends and ‘Net friends to begin this blog and say what I have to say—including Bear and Bull from lectio divina, and a number of others. I think today is the day of the Julian meeting in Atlanta, which is a bit far away for me to get to….
Rather than do a whole lot of personal introduction stuff here, I want to just say that I am Peter, called prophetpeter in a LiveJournal account that no one seems to be reading any more, and that I hope to make this blog a kind of corollary to my personal journal, which has never had a lot to do with the details of my personal life, but which has always been more of a place for spiritual reflections about the Bible and Jesus and prayer and mystical experiences and life in general. I admire the writing style of Bear and Bull and Bear’s friend Carl, and I hope to be able to link to them and have an ongoing dialogue with them and others with similar interests.
I do have some autobiographical material which I have sent to the folks at lectio divina—a bit of a chronicle of my spiritual journey—and I expect that I will put some of that in here before long. At this point I want to follow the advice of an old German proverb which says, “Be sure to keep the main thing the main thing,” and to talk about what I find to be the most important of topics.
Simply put, that would be this: the centrality of Jesus in the spiritual universe.
In my searching I have looked in many places for a spiritual center, what Carl calls a viewpoint to speak from, and I have discovered that Jesus is that center in a unique way. There are no rivals that I have found worthy of my affection or devotion in the way that he has done and continues to do. Jesus is the center of my conscious life and, as far as I am tuned in to it, my unconscious, subconscious, etc. as well.
Jesus is my friend, my lover, my healer, my master, my light, my hope, my constant companion, my conscience, my judge, my future...in a word, Jesus is my life.
This has myriad consequences socially, spiritually, personally, etc.—it determines my spiritual practice, for instance, and my stance in communicating about spiritual realities with other seekers. I wholeheartedly desire to be a “pagan-friendly Christian” (to use another term of Carl’s), and I find this completely consistent with my central focus.
I need to go now, and get back to this later—and I need to figure out the mechanics of how to get this blog thing up and running. I invite all comments and questions, as always, because I truly desire to be and remain open.
Blessings and love to all,
Peter
06 June 2006
This seems to be the best time to start this blog, since I do appear to have a bit more free time than usual—though what we call free time has a way of disappearing very quickly, and we find ourselves busier than during our regular work times!
I have been encouraged by a number of friends and ‘Net friends to begin this blog and say what I have to say—including Bear and Bull from lectio divina, and a number of others. I think today is the day of the Julian meeting in Atlanta, which is a bit far away for me to get to….
Rather than do a whole lot of personal introduction stuff here, I want to just say that I am Peter, called prophetpeter in a LiveJournal account that no one seems to be reading any more, and that I hope to make this blog a kind of corollary to my personal journal, which has never had a lot to do with the details of my personal life, but which has always been more of a place for spiritual reflections about the Bible and Jesus and prayer and mystical experiences and life in general. I admire the writing style of Bear and Bull and Bear’s friend Carl, and I hope to be able to link to them and have an ongoing dialogue with them and others with similar interests.
I do have some autobiographical material which I have sent to the folks at lectio divina—a bit of a chronicle of my spiritual journey—and I expect that I will put some of that in here before long. At this point I want to follow the advice of an old German proverb which says, “Be sure to keep the main thing the main thing,” and to talk about what I find to be the most important of topics.
Simply put, that would be this: the centrality of Jesus in the spiritual universe.
In my searching I have looked in many places for a spiritual center, what Carl calls a viewpoint to speak from, and I have discovered that Jesus is that center in a unique way. There are no rivals that I have found worthy of my affection or devotion in the way that he has done and continues to do. Jesus is the center of my conscious life and, as far as I am tuned in to it, my unconscious, subconscious, etc. as well.
Jesus is my friend, my lover, my healer, my master, my light, my hope, my constant companion, my conscience, my judge, my future...in a word, Jesus is my life.
This has myriad consequences socially, spiritually, personally, etc.—it determines my spiritual practice, for instance, and my stance in communicating about spiritual realities with other seekers. I wholeheartedly desire to be a “pagan-friendly Christian” (to use another term of Carl’s), and I find this completely consistent with my central focus.
I need to go now, and get back to this later—and I need to figure out the mechanics of how to get this blog thing up and running. I invite all comments and questions, as always, because I truly desire to be and remain open.
Blessings and love to all,
Peter
posted by Peter at 12:12 PM
1 Comments:
Peter! Great to see you blogging. Blog for a month and I'll have to add you to zoecarnate. See you tonight...
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