What is Faith?

explore faith : Book Review of Soul Making by Alan Jones: "Their belief was that faith is not a product of indoctrination from the outside; it comes from the Spirit of God bursting out from inside us."

"...there is a divinely initiated banquet going on at the heart of ordinary life."
Ronald Rolheiser - The Shattered Lantern"

Restfulness

"True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace, and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough."
Ronald Rolheiser in The Shattered Lantern

Freedom

Sacred Space - Monday 10th October: "God is not foreign to my freedom.
Instead the Spirit breathes life into my most intimate desires,
gently nudging me towards all that is good.
I ask for the grace to let myself be enfolded by the Spirit."

We are never stationary...........

Sacred Space - the prayer site run by the Irish Jesuits: "We are never stationary on the path to God. Our prayer changes. Many many good people move from using well-rehearsed vocal prayers and pious reflections, to a more silent, wordless sort of presence: Be still and know that I am God. I will not have thy thoughts instead of thee. The old peasant, whom the Cure of Ars found spending hours in the church, explained it: I look at the good God and the good God looks at me. With our oldest friends we do not need to talk."