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A fan of Franciscan Father Richard Rohr
Happiness is an inside job. When we expect to find happiness outside of ourselves, we are always disappointed. We then seek a “higher” or more stimulating experience and the spiral of addiction and consumption continues. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Enoughness and Contentment
Simplicity Enoughness and Contentment Tuesday, October 4, 2016 (Feast of St. Francis of Assisi) We live in a society that places great importance upon
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December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Happiness is an inside job. When we expect to find happiness outside of ourselves, we are always disappointed. We then seek a “higher” or more stimulating experience and the spiral of addiction and consumption continues. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
"The last fruit of holy obedience is the simplicity of the trusting child, the simplicity of the children of God." Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941), a Quaker missionary, wrote in his spiritual classic called A Testament of Devotion cac.org/daily-medita...
Truth is One: Exploring Quaker Wisdom from Thomas R. Kelly
Simplicity Truth is One Monday, October 3, 2016 Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941), a Quaker missionary, wrote a slender spiritual classic called A Testament of
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December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"The last fruit of holy obedience is the simplicity of the trusting child, the simplicity of the children of God." Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941), a Quaker missionary, wrote in his spiritual classic called A Testament of Devotion cac.org/daily-medita...
It seems we all begin in naiveté and eventually return to a “second naiveté” or simplicity, whether willingly or on our deathbed. This blessed simplicity is calm, knowing, patient, inclusive, and self-forgetful. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Second Naiveté
Simplicity Second Naiveté Sunday, October 2, 2016 My life journey began as a very conservative pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic, pious and law-abiding,
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December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It seems we all begin in naiveté and eventually return to a “second naiveté” or simplicity, whether willingly or on our deathbed. This blessed simplicity is calm, knowing, patient, inclusive, and self-forgetful. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
In order to fully participate in the sacred dance, our hearts, minds, and bodies must all be present and open. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Trinity: Week 3 Summary
Trinity: Week 3 Summary: Sunday, September 25-Friday, September 30, 2016 If the Father does not dominate the Son, and the Son does not dominate the Holy
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December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In order to fully participate in the sacred dance, our hearts, minds, and bodies must all be present and open. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
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Today marks the beginning of Advent — a four-week season when many Christians begin to prepare our hearts for the Christmas celebration.
We invite you to join the livestreams of our free Advent Virtual Sit meditations — every Sunday during Advent! buff.ly/mUI2Nyj
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November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today marks the beginning of Advent — a four-week season when many Christians begin to prepare our hearts for the Christmas celebration.
We invite you to join the livestreams of our free Advent Virtual Sit meditations — every Sunday during Advent! buff.ly/mUI2Nyj
We invite you to join the livestreams of our free Advent Virtual Sit meditations — every Sunday during Advent! buff.ly/mUI2Nyj
You can’t diminish God’s love for you. What you can do, however, is learn how to believe it, receive it, trust it, allow it, and celebrate it, accepting Trinity’s whirling invitation to join in the cosmic dance. cac.org/daily-medita...
God Is for Us
Trinity: Week 3 God Is for Us Friday, September 30, 2016 Love is just like prayer; it is not so much an action that we do, but a dialogue that already
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December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
You can’t diminish God’s love for you. What you can do, however, is learn how to believe it, receive it, trust it, allow it, and celebrate it, accepting Trinity’s whirling invitation to join in the cosmic dance. cac.org/daily-medita...
We each get our little chance to dance on this stage of life, to reflect the glory of God back to God and to participate with everything and everyone else. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Join in the Dance
Trinity: Week 3 Join in the Dance Thursday, September 29, 2016 Once you learn to take your place inside the circle of praise and mutual deference, all
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December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We each get our little chance to dance on this stage of life, to reflect the glory of God back to God and to participate with everything and everyone else. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
God is always giving, even in those moments when we experience the inaccessibility of love as if it were divine anger. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Laughter, Liking, Delighting, Loving
Trinity: Week 3 Laughter, Liking, Delighting, Loving Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Let me share an astounding bit of poetry from Meister Eckhart, the
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December 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
God is always giving, even in those moments when we experience the inaccessibility of love as if it were divine anger. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Jesus doesn’t check if the people he heals are Jewish, gay, baptized, or in their first marriage. There’s only the one question, which he asks in various ways:
Do you want to be healed?
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Do you want to be healed?
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Vulnerability
Trinity: Week 3 Vulnerability Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Did you ever imagine that what we call “vulnerability” might just be the key to ongoing growth?
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December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Jesus doesn’t check if the people he heals are Jewish, gay, baptized, or in their first marriage. There’s only the one question, which he asks in various ways:
Do you want to be healed?
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Do you want to be healed?
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In short, we made Jesus Christ into an exclusive savior instead of the totally inclusive savior he was meant to be. cac.org/daily-medita...
Interfaith Friendship
Trinity: Week 3 Interfaith Friendship Monday, September 26, 2016 Trinitarian theology offers us perhaps the best foundation for true interfaith dialogue
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December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In short, we made Jesus Christ into an exclusive savior instead of the totally inclusive savior he was meant to be. cac.org/daily-medita...
Let’s stop idolizing the so-called “One Percent.” There’s nothing worthwhile up there that is not also down here. Worst of all, it has given ninety-nine percent of the world an unnecessary and tragic inferiority complex.
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The Power of Trinitarian Love and Fellowship
Trinity: Week 3 The Power of Love Sunday, September 25, 2016 I think it’s foolish to presume we can understand Jesus if we don’t first of all understand
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December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Let’s stop idolizing the so-called “One Percent.” There’s nothing worthwhile up there that is not also down here. Worst of all, it has given ninety-nine percent of the world an unnecessary and tragic inferiority complex.
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Contemplative prayer is a practice of kenosis or self-emptying. At its most basic, contemplation is letting go of our habitual thoughts, preferences, judgments, and feelings. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Trinity: Week 2 Summary and Kenosis Contemplative Practice
Trinity: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, September 18-Friday, September 23, 2016 Divine knowing—some would call it spiritual intuition—is actually an allowing of
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November 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Contemplative prayer is a practice of kenosis or self-emptying. At its most basic, contemplation is letting go of our habitual thoughts, preferences, judgments, and feelings. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The Great Flow makes use of everything, absolutely everything. “Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more” (Romans 5:20). Even your mistakes will be used in your favor, if you al low them to be. That’s how good God is. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Let the Flow Happen
Trinity: Week 2 Let the Flow Happen Friday, September 23, 2016 Think of your own experience: how many people do you know, including yourself, who are
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November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Great Flow makes use of everything, absolutely everything. “Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more” (Romans 5:20). Even your mistakes will be used in your favor, if you al low them to be. That’s how good God is. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Mature Christianity is thus an invitation to share in the personal life of God, a dynamic of generated love forever continued in space and time through God’s creatures. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
Creative Continuation
Trinity: Week 2 Creative Continuation Thursday, September 22, 2016 Daniel Walsh, who was Thomas Merton’s primary philosophy teacher, says he’s not sure if
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November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Mature Christianity is thus an invitation to share in the personal life of God, a dynamic of generated love forever continued in space and time through God’s creatures. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
We are not outsiders or mere spectators but inherently part of the divine dance, while ever being drawn deeper into the Divine Two-Step. Jesus said, “I will come back again & take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be” (John 14:3). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The Fourth Person of the Trinity
Trinity: Week 2 The Fourth Person of the Trinity Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Many of us started with some notion of God as an abstract Being and then,
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November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We are not outsiders or mere spectators but inherently part of the divine dance, while ever being drawn deeper into the Divine Two-Step. Jesus said, “I will come back again & take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be” (John 14:3). #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
One of the most wonderful things I find in the classic naming of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is its affirmation that there is an intrinsic plurality to goodness. Goodness isn’t sameness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The Delight of Diversity
Trinity: Week 2 The Delight of Diversity Tuesday, September 20, 2016 One of the most wonderful things I find in the classic naming of God as Father, Son,
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November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
One of the most wonderful things I find in the classic naming of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is its affirmation that there is an intrinsic plurality to goodness. Goodness isn’t sameness. #RichardRohr cac.org/daily-medita...
The Law of Flow is simple, and Jesus states it in many formulations such as “Happy are the merciful; they shall have mercy shown to them” (Matthew 5:7). Or as we cleverly put it “What goes around comes around.” We are conduits. cac.org/daily-medita...
A Relational Universe
Trinity: Week 2 A Relational Universe Monday, September 19, 2016 If a rational Creator started this whole thing, then there has to be a “DNA connection,”
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November 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Law of Flow is simple, and Jesus states it in many formulations such as “Happy are the merciful; they shall have mercy shown to them” (Matthew 5:7). Or as we cleverly put it “What goes around comes around.” We are conduits. cac.org/daily-medita...
Spiritual knowing is often called wisdom and must be distinguished from merely having correct information or knowledge. cac.org/daily-medita...
Participatory Knowing
Trinity: Week 2 Participatory Knowing Sunday, September 18, 2016 All authentic knowledge of God is participatory. I must say this directly and clearly
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November 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Spiritual knowing is often called wisdom and must be distinguished from merely having correct information or knowledge. cac.org/daily-medita...
The only way, then, to increase authentic spirituality is to deliberately practice actually enjoying a positive response and a grateful heart. And the benefits are very real. By following through on conscious choices, we can rewire our responses toward love, trust, and patience.
“Gratitude is not a form of passive acceptance or complicity. Rather, it is the capacity to stare doubt, loss, chaos, and despair right in the eye and say, ‘I am still here” —Diana Butler Bass tinyurl.com/yvxerhmj
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The only way, then, to increase authentic spirituality is to deliberately practice actually enjoying a positive response and a grateful heart. And the benefits are very real. By following through on conscious choices, we can rewire our responses toward love, trust, and patience.
Contemplative knowing intuits things in their wholeness, with all levels of connection and meaning, and perhaps how they fit in the full scheme of things. cac.org/daily-medita...
Trinity: Week 1 Summary and Mirroring Practice
Trinity: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, September 11-Friday, September 16, 2016 I believe that behind every mistaken understanding of reality there is always a
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November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Contemplative knowing intuits things in their wholeness, with all levels of connection and meaning, and perhaps how they fit in the full scheme of things. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Way of Jesus is an invitation to a Trinitarian way of living, loving, and relating—on earth as it is in the Godhead. We are intrinsically like the Trinity, living in an absolute relatedness. cac.org/daily-medita...
Experience God As Radical Relationship
Trinity: Week 1 God Is Relationship Friday, September 16, 2016 We owe a great deal of our Western thinking to the brilliant Greek philosopher and
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November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Way of Jesus is an invitation to a Trinitarian way of living, loving, and relating—on earth as it is in the Godhead. We are intrinsically like the Trinity, living in an absolute relatedness. cac.org/daily-medita...
The principle of one is lonely; the principle of two is oppositional and moves you toward preference and exclusion; the principle of three is inherently moving, dynamic, and generative. cac.org/daily-medita...
From Disconnection to Connection with "the One and the Many"
Trinity: Week 1 From Disconnection to Connection Thursday, September 15, 2016 If my instincts are right, this rediscovery of Trinity can’t come a moment
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November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The principle of one is lonely; the principle of two is oppositional and moves you toward preference and exclusion; the principle of three is inherently moving, dynamic, and generative. cac.org/daily-medita...
This God is the very one whom we have named “Trinity”—the Flow who flows through everything, without exception, and who has done so since the beginning. For those who have learned to see, everything is holy now. cac.org/daily-medita...
A Spiritual Paradigm Shift
Trinity: Week 1 A Spiritual Paradigm Shift Wednesday, September 14, 2016 History has so long operated with a static and imperial image of God—as a Supreme
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November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This God is the very one whom we have named “Trinity”—the Flow who flows through everything, without exception, and who has done so since the beginning. For those who have learned to see, everything is holy now. cac.org/daily-medita...
You are called “to consciously participate in the divine dance of loving and being loved,” as Wm Paul Young, the best selling author of The Shack, writes. cac.org/daily-medita...
The Trinity Invites Us to Take Our Place at the Table
Trinity: Week 1 Take Your Place at the Table Tuesday, September 13, 2016 In Genesis we see the divine dance in an early enigmatic story (18:1-8). “The
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November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
You are called “to consciously participate in the divine dance of loving and being loved,” as Wm Paul Young, the best selling author of The Shack, writes. cac.org/daily-medita...
We absolutely must maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery; otherwise, religion worships itself and its formulations instead of God. cac.org/daily-medita...
Trinity: A Mystery to Endlessly Understand
Trinity: Week 1 Trinity: MIA Monday September 12, 2016 In his classic study, The Trinity, Karl Rahner said, “Christians are, in their practical life,
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We absolutely must maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery; otherwise, religion worships itself and its formulations instead of God. cac.org/daily-medita...